HP denies Itanium change cost it sales
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HP BOSS Ann Livermore said that the move to Itanium was not responsible for HP&#39;s sales slump. Livermore, who managed to avoid an axe wielding Carly Fiorina this week as sales in the bits of the company she manages plummeted, said that killing the Alpha ...
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Sun Microsystems is trying a new marketing strategy ... giving away its new Solaris 10 operating system for free! &quot;Hewlett Packard sells a printer at a low price and makes a lot of money on printer cartridges.
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Intel has introduced a third-generation Itanium 2 into the market, but Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has noted that its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition will not run on servers with the chip.
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(InfoWorld) - HP on Monday announced it has upgraded products in its service management portfolio to help customers expedite changes, automate software distribution and align IT processes with the best practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). At its HP Software Universe conference in Las Vegas, the company announced updated software and services that it says will help reduce manual error and maintain more good configurations across distributed systems. The company also introduced a product, HP Change Control Management Software, which incorporates a change advisory board -- recommended in ITIL -- into software. The software, built on technology acquired with Mercury Interactive, helps automate approvals processes and reduces the need for multiple change advisory meetings to push changes out to systems, industry watchers say. "This product can eliminate tasks that a change advisory board would typically have to do," says Evelyn Hubbert, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. Because the software incorporates Mercury technology with HP's focus on service management and ITIL best practices, Hubbert says, "HP has done more work than it has in the past at working across different divisions. The product is a significant step forward in integration." HP also announced upgrades to its HP Configuration Management Software, also built on acquired technology from Novadigm. This product picks up where the change-control product leaves off, HP says, by pushing out changes approved by the change advisory board to production systems. The vendor also says this software can help with rolling out virtualization software and migrating systems to Vista. Forrester's Hubbert says the product "closes the loop on rolling out changes" for customers and reveals HP's product plans to "trickle out" more automation in its software. "It is a real pain point for clients to see a change from initiation to conclusion. HP is offering another proof point in automation, but also addressing that pain point," Hubbert says. "The company is also doing a better job of aligning their products and building a better implementation road map." Last, HP announced its Best Practices for Service Center services, which help organizations accelerate the adoption of HP Service Center software and align internal IT-management processes with those if ITIL Version 2 as well as Version 3 of the best-practice framework. The software and services are available. HP did not disclose pricing information.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. , the world's largest printer and personal-computer maker, settled regulators' claims that it misled investors by failing to say why a director resigned amid a probe of boardroom leaks.
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Linux 10 times more expensive? U.K. standards body says company's "Get the Facts" ad campaign may be misleading.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has abandoned plans to integrate a number of advanced technologies it acquired in its 2002 purchase of Compaq Computer Corp.
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Intel and Hewlett-Packard will end their 10-year long development partnership for Itanium server chips, according to a report from Reuters.
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Software giant denies abusing its market position and says it has no intention of unbundling IE and Windows.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  will be under pressure to sell its personal computer business after IBM's decision to sell its PC operations to China's top PC manufacturer, but analysts said the No. 2 computer maker would hold on to its &#36;25 billion PC division for now.
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THE CINDERELLA of Intel&#39;s chips, the Itanium, has been told it can&#39;t go to the Microsoft&#39;s supercomputer ball. That&#39;s according to a report on Infoworld, which claims that the software giant will only support
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Acer Inc. has filed a patent counterclaim against rival Hewlett-Packard Co. as part of itsÂ response to two HP lawsuits.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle will soon begin certification of its database software to run on Itanium 2 computing processor platforms. Oracle joined with officials of the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) in making the announcement Monday at the first ever Itanium Solutions Summit in San Francisco. The move is a further endorsement by Oracle of the beleaguered Itanium processor family which has been slow to gain traction in the server marketplace, though it hasÂ shown some recent momentum. "This seems like an 'attaboy' announcement," said industry analyst Charles King. The Itanium microprocessor family was developed by Intel, of Santa Clara, California, and Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, California, but even with the backing of these tech industry giants, relatively few software programs were initially available to run on Itanium. In announcing Oracle's support, Alliance members said Monday there are now 10,000 software applications from 2,000 independent software vendors certified on the Itanium 2 dual-core processor, code-named "Montecito," the latest iteration of Itanium introduced this summer. When ISA was founded in September 2005, it counted only 5,000 Itanium-compatible applications. Oracle, of Redwood Shores, California, is "reiterating" its support of Itanium with Monday's announcement, said Oracle spokesman Eloy Ontiveros, planning to certify the next major releases of its Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware products across various operating systems. Oracle's decision is "in keeping with our longstanding tradition of presenting customers with many choices in deployment platforms," said Prem Kumar, vice president of the Oracle's Server Technologies division. Of Oracle's support of Itanium, industry analyst Joe Clabby said, "They kind of have to." Oracle is one of the largest of HP's technology partners and HP is the biggest supporter of Itanium, said Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics of Yarmouth, Maine, citing industry reports that as many as 80 percent of the Itanium servers on the market are HP-branded servers. Oracle has made several announcements in recent years about software applications that run on Itanium-powered servers and this is just the latest effort to promote Itanium, said King, president of Pund-IT Research, of Hayward, California. "Now that Montecito has hit the market, Itanium is gaining success among HP users," King said. But he still doesn't see Itanium taking business from its main processor competitors, the Power architecture from IBM Corp., of Armonk, New York, or the Sparc from Sun Microsystems, of Santa Clara, California. However, ISA cited IDC Research data showing Itanium building momentum. Sales of Itanium-based systems generated $740 million in revenue in the second quarter, up 36.4 percent from the year ago quarter. IDC reported in February that the market for Itanium servers may reach $6.6 billion by 2009, up from $2.4 billion in 2005. Other server makers supporting Itanium 2 include Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, FujitsuÂ of Japan, and Silicon Graphics, of Mountain View, California.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Will Itanium ever pay for itself?
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This looks like the *real* beginning of the end for Itanium. The workstation market is two-fold. There are those that use workstations for computing tasks (scientific, visualization, whatever) and those that
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Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced it was quitting the microprocessor making business by severing its 10-year partnership with Intel to develop Itanium chips for server computers.
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SEATTLE, DEC 9: Hewlett-Packard Co will be under pressure to sell its personal computer business after IBM&#39;s decision to sell its PC operations to China&#39;s top PC manufacturer, but analysts said the No 2 computer maker would hold on to its $25 billion PC