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To: Pruguy who wrote (36445)	11/12/1998 10:57:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

More on CPQ's enterprise plans... By the way Pruguy, I feel a bit dumb but you lost me with your update. Are you talking about beer or something else??? John Compaq execs stress quest for the enterprise By David Pendery InfoWorld Electric Posted at 12:09 PM PT, Nov 12, 1998 SAN FRANCISCO -- At Oracle OpenWorld here Thursday, Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, speaking by remote video connection, and Compaq's vice president of business intelligence and database technology, John Nicholson, reiterated their company's aim to dominate in virtually every realm of an Internet-connected enterprise and world. "We intend to define the computing paradigm of the 21st century," Nicholson said in his keynote address to the Oracle World attendees. The company will accomplish this with a strategy built with elements that are becoming familiar chestnuts to Compaq watchers: clustered systems connected to Fibre Channel storage technology; 64-bit computing by way of Alpha processors and ultimately IA-64; optimization of mixed NT (including Windows 2000) and Unix environments; a range of direct and indirect channel avenues; and the full exploitation of Digital technology and services groups. "Compaq has dramatically increased its ability to deliver these enterprise solutions with the acquisition of Digital," Pfeiffer said. To demonstrate its grasp of a range of technologies, Compaq is demonstrating a cluster of Xeon-powered ProLiant servers and attached Fibre Channel storage -- configured using the Virtual Interface Architecture and Tandem's ServerNet network controllers -- running distributed instances of Oracle8i parallel server, as well as Windows NT. Such clustered designs, processing power, and high-speed cluster and storage connectivity will provide the underpinnings of the coming Internet-connected enterprise, according to Compaq. "There is now a planetary scale of integrated enterprise computing environments," well beyond the notion of server closets, LANs, and independent data centers, Nicholson said. Nicholson also underscored Compaq's burgeoning network of direct sales and service options by demonstrating Compaq's activeAnswers, the company's online configurator and community of its IT customers, which was launched in July. Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, is at (281) 370-0670 or www.compaq.com. David Pendery is an InfoWorld reporter. Related articles: "Compaq launches 'massive' direct-sales effort" Go to the Week's Top News Stories