To: Paul Engel who wrote (95058 ) 1/5/2000 12:38:00 PM From: Harry Landsiedel Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
Paul. Re: Itanium. Good news for Intel. HL NEW INFORMATION ON COMPAQ WEBSITE COMPAQ DEMONSTRATES 64-BIT OPERATING SYSTEMS ON INTEL(R) ITANIUM(TM) PROCESSOR BASED SERVER. HOUSTON, Jan 5, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Extending its NonStop(TM) eBusiness Solutions strategy, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced that it is demonstrating Microsoft(R)'s 64-bit Windows operating system and SCO's Monterey/64 UNIX based operating system on its own IA-64 based ProLiant server platform at its Houston headquarters. Compaq's success establishes it as the reference platform of choice for IA-64 based solutions. For more details on this announcement, please visit Compaq's Web site at: compaq.com Customer Benefit: Compaq is partnering with leading software vendors to deliver deployable solutions on IA-64 to customers seeking the immediate benefits of industry standard 64-bit computing. Customers with applications that take advantage of large memory configurations and the improved processing power of Intel(R) Itanium(TM) processor will benefit immediately from these 64-bit solutions. Company Background: Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com . Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. For further editorial information, contact: Compaq Computer Corporation, Timothy Golden, 281-518-2855 , or e-mail, timothy.golden@compaq.com, or Hill and Knowlton, Wendy Giever, 312-255-3146, or e-mail, wgiever@hillandknowlton.com SOURCE Compaq Computer Corporation (C) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved.prnewswire.com -0- CONTACT: Timothy Golden of Compaq Computer Corporation, 281-518-2855, or e-mail, timothy.golden@compaq.com, or Wendy Giever of Hill and Knowlton, 312-255-3146, wgiever@hillandk