[ossig] HP, Intel debut Asian Linux center

[Nan Phin <nplee@tm.net.my>]

      By Winston Chai, CNETAsia
     Wednesday, January 8 2003 6:47 PM

     SHANGHAI, China--Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Intel have joined hands to establish an
     Asia-Pacific solution center in Shanghai in a bid to tap into the mainland’s growing
     demand for Linux-based applications.

     “China is the largest market for our industry standard servers, more than twice the size of other
     countries in the region,” said Duragadutt Nedungadi, HP Asia-Pacific’s director of business
     development and solutions for industry standard servers.

     “Furthermore, it (China) also has the largest Linux installed base in Asia-Pacific,” Nedungadi
     said.

     According to market research
     firm International Data Corp,
     China accounted for 40 percent
     of the Linux standard Intel
     architecture server revenues in
     Asia-Pacific last year, but the
     figure is expected to expand to
     53 percent by 2006.

     “Many of our customers are
     keen to try Linux for certain
     parts of their business,” said
     Nedungadi. “They hope to run
     Linux as part of a mixed
     operating environment but are
     unsure if they can handle the
     deployment or have confidence
     in its reliability.”

     “To support the migration of
     applications to Linux, the new solution center allows our regional customers and ISVs
     (independent software vendors) to conduct proof-of-concept testing, pilots, performance tuning
     and capacity planning,” said Paul Blinkhorn, HP Asia-Pacific’s vice president for industry
     standard servers.

     As testament of partner endorsement for the initiative, Nedungadi said global enterprise
     software players such as Oracle, SAP, Sybase, and regional ISVs including Digital Global Soft
     and Millinux will be making their solutions available at the new facility.

     He added HP aims to invest US$2 million in the first year of operation, and that the center will
     focus on Itanium-based technology as next phase of development after Linux.

     The Shanghai lab is one of three such joint efforts between HP and Intel globally, with the
     others being based in France and the U.S.

     In a separate announcement today, HP also unveiled a new customer service center in
     Singapore which will incorporate a host of new services including a bar-coded process to track
     equipment repairs.

     CNETAsia's Winston Chai reported from Shanghai, China.


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