Red Hat, HP ship Linux Itanium 2 workstations
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has begun selling a pair of workstations that use Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 processors and a version of Red Hat Inc.'s enterprise Linux operating system.
HP and Red Hat partnered in June to create a version of Red Hat's Advanced Server OS tailored to HP's line of Itanium 2 systems, which went on sale in July. A promotion now posted on HP's Web site offers its two Itanium 2 workstations, the single-processor zx2000 and duel-processor zx6000, loaded with Red Hat's Linux Advanced Workstation. Both use a 900MHz Itanium 2 chip; pricing for the zx2000 starts at US$3,991, while the zx6000 bundle starts at $7,851. The discounted pricing is scheduled to last through Oct. 18.
Advanced Workstation is Red Hat's 64-bit version of its Advanced Server operating system software, an enterprise-focused operating system released in March and bolstered with features such as clustering and load-balancing technology. It replaces Red Hat's earlier 64-bit offering, an Itanium-compatible version of its Red Hat Linux 7.2 software that went on sale in January but has been recently discontinued.
"I don't think the Itanium ever took off in its original release," said Red Hat Vice President of Marketing Mark de Visser, regarding the quick demise of Red Hat 7.2 for Itanium.
Now that Red Hat has Advanced Server available, that's the product it's focusing on for enterprise deployments, he said, noting that much of the work that went into the initial Itanium-compatible versions of Red Hat's software has been recycled into Advanced Workstation.
In related news, HP added Tuesday a new server to its ProLiant line and upgraded two existing servers in the portfolio. The new ProLiant ML310 is aimed at small businesses and branch offices. The first ProLiant server to use an Intel Pentium 4 processor, the ML310 starts at $1,199 with 128M bytes of memory and a 40G byte hard drive.
HP also released third-generation models of its ProLiant ML350 and ML370 servers, both based on Intel's Xeon processors and available in rack and tower versions. Previous versions of the ML350 and ML370 used Intel's Pentium III chips. Pricing for the new ML350 starts at $1,849 (tower) and $2,099 (rack), while ML370 pricing starts at $2,709 (tower) and $3,009 (rack).
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