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 ...

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The company's move to transfer its Alpha chip expertise to Intel leaves just three major chip designs in competition: Intel's Itanium, Sun's UltraSparc and IBM's Power. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the latest sign that the server industry may be moving away from proprietary chips and toward standardization that marked the development, growth and flexibility of PCs. Compaq is the second ...

IBM and Compaq Computer Corp. are to announce Monday new computers that they call servers. IBM’s six machines offer an alternative to the traditional mainframe, while Compaq’s four computers are ...

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 ...

Offering a preview of its upcoming QuickBlade server architecture, Compaq on Monday announced a partnership with Intel to develop Compaq QuickBlade servers in tandem with a new chip from Intel.