systems and well alpha
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Granted, it may have replaced partners' Mips Risc architecture as well as HP's own Alpha and is currently eating its way through the PA-Risc market but how is it doing against the... [06 Nov 2006]
HP to reanimate OpenVMS
News HP is vulnerable because its OpenVMS customers face a major hardware and software transition: HP is phasing out the Alpha processor that is the primary foundation for OpenVMS today. At HP, "it is very... [17 Jan 2005]
Sun woos Wall Street with new OS
News Tandem and Alpha are zombies, at this point," Fowler said, referring to two of HP's high-end server families. The comeback is already under way, asserted John Fowler, executive vice president of the... [27 Aug 2004]
Mozilla gets mobile with money from Nokia
News The resulting project, called "Minimo," has produced a workable prototype, or "pre-alpha milestone. In addition to Opera Software and Microsoft's Pocket IE, competitors include Access, InterNiche... [21 Jun 2004]
Sun pounces on HP stumble
News And it is a huge vulnerability - at the end of the day, the Alpha customers have a migration to go through. The program began in July in the US and was expanded to Europe,... [11 Nov 2003]
Intel addresses some Itanium concerns
News Emulating one chip on another has historically been difficult and is most often used as a crutch during migrations, such as when Digital Equipment switched from VAX microprocessors to the Alpha. Intel is... [24 Apr 2003]
IBM backs AMD's Opteron server chip
News Microsoft came out with a version of Windows for Digital's Alpha processor at one point but phased it out after slow sales. Its latest is the Athlon XP, which has been successful in desktop and notebook... [23 Apr 2003]
$600m Irish bank deal completes HP mega-deal hat-trick
News The Irish bank is already a big HP customer, having purchased a NonStop system, high-end Alpha systems, ProLiant servers as well as desktops and storage gear from the... [15 Apr 2003]
Compaq's makeover: is beauty more than skin deep?
Comment Gary Kerrison, Alpha server product marketing manager for UK and Ireland at Compaq, said: "In the high-end enterprise space, Alpha will succeed. He said: "Compaq had to persuade the... [04 Aug 2000]
Compaq to ignite the Internet with Wildfire
News According to Martin Hingley, vice president of the European systems group at IDC, the 64 bit Alpha processor is currently used by around 40 per cent of the UK telco market. Hingley added that although... [16 May 2000]
Compaq signs five-year deal with Williams F1
News The PC and server giant will provide the team with high-end systems, including Unix and Alpha servers, as well as wireless devices for use during racing... [24 Jan 2000]
Compaq unveils single-chip Linux server
News As well as offering the Linux-ready version of the DS10 to all resellers, Debian and SuSE will join RedHat in selling and supporting Alpha-powered Linux... [11 May 1999]
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