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HP Faces New Realities in a 64-Bit World
One of the issues facing Hewlett-Packard’s high-end server business is that it is being forced to fight a two-front war. The company’s Alpha and HP9000 series servers, which are equipped with 64-bit processors, are competing with the likes of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. in the Unix space, plus emerging 64-bit x86 architectures that run…
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Outsourcing Deals: Better the Second Time
Everyone’s always looking for a better deal, aren’t they? Hey, better deals are closely related to the pursuit of happiness, which is, after all, one of our nation’s founding principles. So why is it that outsourcers and their customers are always so proud to announce really long deals—deals of seven, eight, even 10 years—that are…
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HP, P&G Deem Transition Smooth
In Hewlett-Packard Co.’s bid to be an enterprise partner on a par with such heavy hitters as IBM Global Services, no deal is more important than its outsourcing contract with consumer goods company The Procter & Gamble Co. One year after HP, of Palo, Alto, Calif., took over P&G’s worldwide IT operations, executives at both…
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HP Scrambles for Footing with AlphaServers
Hewlett-Packard Co., while moving swiftly forward with many of its business lines since its historic acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. two years ago, is scrambling to gain footing with one unit that ships a legacy Compaq product, Alpha-based servers. While overall revenues for the Palo Alto, Calif., company grew 9 percent in its third fiscal…
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Microsoft Pushes Back Automatic Delivery of SP2
Monday, August 16, was set to be D-day for the automatic delivery of Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). But at the last minute, the Redmond software vendor decided to push back by at least nine days the Windows Update/Automatic Update launch date for its collection of security fixes and features. Microsoft cited customer…
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No Easy Fix for Internal Security
Not too long ago, the Gartner Group raised a minor dustup in the IT community by releasing a report claiming that portable storage media—including consumer devices such as cameras and MP3 players with built-in or removable memory—represent a new security threat to corporate networks. While I am almost always happy to see people talking about…
