Short Take: Hitachi embraces Profusion
Hitachi Data Systems is selling eight-Xeon processor servers based on the Profusion chipset--though not the same Profusion chips as Intel will be selling. Hitachi is a licensee of the Profusion design and makes its own in Japan, said Michael Krieger, vice president of PC servers for Hitachi. The servers cost between $50,000 and $200,000, and run either Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Santa Cruz Operation UnixWare, or Novell NetWare.
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is selling
eight-Xeon processor servers based on the Profusion chipset--though not the
same Profusion chips as Intel will be
selling. Hitachi is a licensee of the Profusion design and makes its own in
Japan, said Michael Krieger, vice president of PC servers for Hitachi. The
servers cost between $50,000 and $200,000, and run either Windows NT, Sun Solaris, Santa Cruz Operation UnixWare, or Novell NetWare.