Re: HP Pulls Off a Respectable Second Fiscal Quarter

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:47:17 -0400

Didier Morandi wrote:
> Hurd. Somewhat surprisingly, the Business Critical Server unit, which
> sells Itanium and other enterprise-class servers, had sales up 2
> percent. Inside the BCS unit, sales of Itanium-based Integrity servers
> (which support HP-UX, Windows, Linux, and OpenVMS) were up 37 percent
> (and accounted for 21 percent of total BCS sales).

So, many years into IA64, IA64 still represents only 21% of revenus
compared to dead architectures of Alpha, PaRisc and MIPS.

> Sales of HP-UX
> servers based on the PA-RISC processors were up 9 percent,

Not bad for a dead platform. Shows that some marketing and sales
initatives can even sell dead platforms. So if Alpha sales didn't rise,
it would be because HP isn't trying to sell VMS systems.

> said. He added that for the Unix business in particular, sales in the
> Americas region was higher than expected.

Read: excluding VMS, BCS did well.

> Pourquoi je voterai NON
> a la Constitution europeenne : http://mpf31.free.fr/

If you live in Switzerland, how come you can vote ?

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