By Dominic Maher, 26 July 1999 00:15
NEWS Hewlett-Packard (HP) claims to have taken the lead over other vendors by standardising products on the Intel platform. Speaking to Silicon.com, Hugh Jenkins, enterprise product marketing manager at HP, warned other vendors which fail to make the same move may regret it. He said: "We're pretty ahead of the game but there are vendors, particularly Sun, who still have no Intel play. From HP's point of view, the longer that continues the better, because we believe clearly that is the wrong thing to do and isolate you ultimately in the future". HP took the decision to consolidate on Intel processors in 1994 and will launch its first IA64-based servers in the next 12 to 18 months. "If you look at where the Intel architecture is today, it has by far the largest and richest set of applications available for it and it also delivers computing at a very aggressive price performance," added Jenkins. However, Meta Group analyst, Mark Raphael, said Intel's role in the processor world is overstated. He said: "Intel is an important player but world domination will not happen. Sun is a niche player but recent results show that they are a good one." You can watch the full interview with Hugh Jenkins in Silicon.com's Server Channel.
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