druddle

I have heard today that Compaq have pulled out of the development of the new XEON 8-way/16-way based systems for 2002. Thus -- any Compaq customer who is looking to upgrade today is being urged by HP/Compaq to stick to old technology, or, wait for 6 months when they hope to have something out in 2003 (classic Compaq Sales strategy).

In the meantime, only IBM & Fujitsu Siemens Computers have scalable 8-way Intel XEON Servers (PRIMERGY T850) utilising the latest Intel Xeon technology.

Dave

David_Wallis

Great.... Bet they are working on their blade servers instead...

David

gregh

Was this from a bloke down the pub or a reliable source?

druddle

From a reliable source but sorry cant say where.

Dave

gregh

I can probably check

suba

now that compaq is HP, maybe they are gonna be using the IA-64.

boomer

"only IBM & Fujitsu Siemens Computers have scalable 8-way Intel XEON Servers"

...but is the 8-way twice as fast as the 4-way? I bet not!!!

mb

ChrisB

And four times more expensive as well!

suba

whatever happened to ALR? they do (or did) lots of SMP at one stage.

ChrisB

ALR (or was it AST?) got brought out by Gateway when they were looking to 'crack' the server market.

ROFL

David_Wallis

LOL