HP may have beat it to the "blade" server market, but Compaq isn't worried. It's focusing on software improvements as a major part of its new server line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Color me puzzled. Wall Street doesn't seem to like the proposed merger of HP and Compaq. What's not to like? In a declining PC market, two major forces are joining to survive a withering market. But ...

While blade servers have been positioned as a means to cram many servers into a small space, Compaq Computer Corp.’s introduction of its blade line came with a twist Monday. With the addition of ...

While that eventually might be the case--if the final results of Tuesday's shareholder vote on the HP-Compaq merger end up supporting the deal--the two companies aren't on top in the Unix server arena ...

The PC business was a very important part of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) Compaq acquisition, but one of the main drivers behind the deal was Compaq’s server business, in both Intel-based and Unix ...

What kind of memory are people using with newer Compaq servers? We have like 3 newer Compaq servers that keep ASR'ing with simple and kingston dimms. Is every one using Comapq ram? And to make matters ...

Compaq Computer Corp. today launched the first tier of its high-density, blade server line for businesses, the ProLiant BL e-Class, code-named QuickBlade. Blade servers can be densely stacked in racks ...

Compaq is claiming that a technology tie-up with fault-tolerance specialist Stratus will boost its high-end business and increase the performance of its Intel servers. Compaq is claiming that a ...