HP sees growing market for SuperdomePalo Alto 03 October 2001 Hewlett-Packard said that the HP Superdome server continues to gain acceptance in the high-end UNIX server marketplace. New customers such as Alcatel, Liz Claiborne, Porsche, Mitsubishi Electric and GlaxoSmithKline cite the HP Superdome servers' high performance, scalability and overall total customer experience as reasons for selecting it.
In addition, the most recent IDC report shows a year-over-year HP High-end Unix
server revenue growth rate of 37 percent and 25.7 percent from Q1 to Q2.
HP also announced a competitive new program to entice IBM and Sun Microsystems
customers to move to the HP Superdome server.
This worldwide program matches and adds an additional 10 percent against
trade-in offers for an IBM p680 or S80 and Sun UE10K . The program is
effective immediately and runs through Jan. 25, 2002.
Currently, four of the top five automobile manufacturers worldwide, five of the
top seven telecommunications companies worldwide and four of the top six
aerospace companies worldwide are all running HP Superdome servers.
As proof of the superior value and customer experience provided by HP Superdome
servers, a substantial number of existing owners continue to purchase additional
HP Superdome servers. Some include General Mills, Mobilkom Austria AG, T-Systems
(formerly Debis IT), Vodafone and the U.S. Navy.
From November 2000 to June 2001, the number of HP Superdome server customers on
the list of TOP500 Supercomputing site grew over eightfold. HP sees this trend
continuing as the number of HP Superdome servers in high-performance technical
applications increases.
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