Fueled by strong customer demand, Compaq will also be the first vendor shipping 8-way servers in volume, meeting needs across a broad set of applications and industries, including Finance, Energy, Healthcare and the emerging Application Service Provider market. Among the first ProLiant 8-way customers are The Northern Trust, Enron, Sharp HealthCare, and Digex. We are able to provide our customers with the applications they need to realize the benefits of e-commerce. With the deployment of Compaq 8-way servers we get significant cost savings. In fact, we are going to be purchasing more units.
All pricing is based on U.S. estimated street prices.
Reseller prices may vary. The ProLiant 8000 and ProLiant 8500 will enable upgrades to future technologies to continue to offer customers superior investment protection. The ProLiant 8000 and ProLiant 8500 have the high-availability features to meet 24x7 application needs. As well, the 8-way server architecture provides us with greater ease of maintenance and upgrading. We are excited about the possibilities for the 8500 and feel it will enable us to stay on the leading edge of technology innovation.