HP, Unisys tout Intel servers
C|Net | at | by Mike
High-end Intel servers took two steps forward Monday as Hewlett-Packard demonstrated an Itanium version of its top-end server and Unisys charted new territory for servers using the Xeon processor. HP has been the most vocal advocate of Intel's Itanium processor, the foundation of an HP plan to unify its server lines. Companies such as now-extinct Sequent have tried to build high-end Intel servers, the systems haven't caught on widely with banks, retail stores and other customers with heavyweight computing jobs. That's changing with the arrival of more powerful processors such as Itanium and of less crash-prone versions of Windows--Windows 2000 and its successor, .Net Server 2003, due for release in April 2003.