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February 1998

Compaq Computer

Corporation

C ONTENTS

Executive Summary ........ 1

Overview ........................ 3

Innovations Timeline ...... 4

Recent Innovations

and Benefits ................... 5

Compaq Drives

Standard Value to

Customers .................... 10

Summary ...................... 11

Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations

Executive Summary

With Compaq's long history of innovations in the industry standards marketplace, it's easy to see

why Compaq is the number one server for customers' needs. Compaq provided more than twice

as many servers in the worldwide market than the nearest competitor in the first three quarters of

1997. Within seven years after server sales began, Compaq produced its one-millionth server.

This far surpasses volumes of x86 servers shipped by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Digital

combined.

1 These accomplishments illustrate that what customers require in industry standard

servers, Compaq gives to them.

Compaq's server innovations began in 1989 with the Compaq Systempro, the server that was the

prototype for Compaq’s family of enterprise-based servers built on industry standards. Compaq's

innovations continue with the current ProLiant server family, the first in the industry to integrate

the latest technology, including PCI Hot Plug on selected models. Some major examples of

innovations, which Compaq introduced to the standard-based server marketplace and have been

widely adopted by customers include:

♦ Compaq Insight Manager

♦ Compaq SmartStart

♦ PCI Hot Plug

♦ Intelligent Hot-Pluggable Power Supply

♦ Virtual Interface Architecture

♦ Fibre Channel

♦ I

2O Readiness

♦ Compaq Recovery Server Option

♦ RAID

♦ Redundant NIC Technology

♦ ECC Memory

♦ Next Generation Microprocessor and 8-way processor support

♦ Rack-Mount Design2

Unlike commodity-based providers, Compaq offers flexible computing platforms today by driving

the adoption of useful innovations for higher performance and higher availability into industry-

wide standards. Compaq delivers systems that provide total value to the customer, unprecedented

design and engineering technology, key management solutions, and strategic partnering to

provide seamless integration. This approach is exactly what the customer demands from a world-

class company. And this approach is exactly what the customer receives from Compaq.

As of November 19, 1996 for x86 servers shipped 1994-1996. Source: IDC Report.

Compaq 386670-001 Compaq Leadership in Server Innovations

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