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To: Mephisto who wrote (19907)	9/19/1999 11:06:00 AM
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Palo Alto, California, Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett- Packard Co., the No. 2 computer company, unveiled a low-cost server computer for online businesses, hoping to compete better with Sun Microsystems Inc. and other rivals. H-P also said it formed a partnership with Finland's Nokia Oyj, the world's largest cell-phone maker, that lets the new machine, called the 9000 L-Class, send e-mail and other information to mobile phones. The L-Class is part of H-P's push into Internet computing, a market where it lagged Sun, International Business Machines Corp. and others for several years. The machine will cost as little as $10,000 and is tuned for popular Internet software such as Sun's Java, H-P said. It will be available this month. ``The idea here is being fastest to the Web,' said Janice Chaffin, general manager of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett- Packard's business critical computing unit. H-P executives plan to provide more details on the L-Class at a press conference in Athens tomorrow. Ann Livermore, chief executive of H-P's enterprise computing group, said the agreement with Nokia is among the company's most important alliances because in the future more people will access the Internet through mobile phones. ``This is huge,' Livermore said in an interview. The L-Class server and the Nokia agreement are part of H-P's ``e-services' strategy, through which it hopes to find new uses for the Internet and supply computers to new online companies. It is backing the strategy with a $100 million ad campaign. The new machine also rounds out the line of servers H-P offers with the Unix operating system. Unix is considered more reliable than Microsoft Corp.'s newer Windows NT system, especially for running Internet sites. H-P also has V-Class and N- Class servers, which offer higher performance and cost more. Unlike Sun, H-P committed lots of resources to Windows NT- based computers when it looked like the Microsoft program would trounce Unix because it's less expensive. Unix became popular again with the Internet. Sun makes no machines that run on Windows NT. H-P shares closed down 3 1/8 at 100 13/16 on Friday. They've risen by 48 percent so far this year amid speculation that its e-services strategy will work. ¸1999 Bloomberg L.P. regards