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To: Scumbria who wrote (133863)	5/1/2001 10:56:08 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Respond to of 186894

Compaq, HP to Stop Selling Unisys ES7000s (Because IA_64 is forging ahead :-) Source: Computergram International Date: May 1, 2001 Number: 4154 Sources at Compaq Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co say that they will stop rebranding the 16-way and 32-way ES7000 Wintel mainframes from Unisys Corp. Their commitment to the machines was rather short-lived, with both companies only signing up to rebadge the servers late last summer when Microsoft Corp shipped its high-end Datacenter Server edition of Windows 2000. Compaq said that 95% of the Datacenter Server deals it was closing were for existing ProLiant servers and that it will concentrate on its own "F8" kicker to the current ProLiant 8500 server line (which uses Intel Corp's Profusion chipset) in the short-term and on its own 32-way McKinley server (code-name unknown) over the long haul. The F8 server is an adaptation of the eight-way Profusion chipset that will use the 1.4GHz "Foster" Pentium 4 Xeon chip and which should have at least twice the power of the current generation of Profusion servers. HP sells its own six-way servers using Intel chips as well as the eight-way Profusion servers under its NetServer brand. HP said it is dropping support for ES7000s so it can focus on its Itanium server line. Two-way and four-way Itanium "Merced" servers are expected to be launched by the end of May or early June. Unisys has sold several hundred of the ES7000s so far. Now that Compaq and HP are not reselling the machines, Fujitsu's ICL unit and Dell Computer Corp are the only major vendors besides Unisys that are selling the ES7000.