Product category
Company
Reasons / Notes
Enterprise systems
Intel servers
Compaq
Proliant has larger market share; some HP products, however, will live on
RISC servers
Neither company
HP's PA-RISC and Compaq's Alpha servers to migrate to Itanium
Itanium servers
HP
Broader product range; will incorporate some Compaq technology
Unix
HP
HP-UX has larger market share and broad ISV support
Fault-tolerant servers
Compaq
NonStop server family, originally from Tandem,
rolls onStorage
Both companies
Product lines complement more than compete
Workstations
Both companies
Although Compaq technology adopted here, it's mostly an HP world
Personal systems
Business PCs
Compaq
Market share; will bear Compaq name; nine- to 12-month transition
Business notebooks
Compaq
HP's Omnibook to be offered through 2002
Consumer PCs
Both companies
Can serve more customer types and sales regions
Handhelds
Compaq
iPaq will live on with HP's Jornada touches
Printers
HP
HP has long been dominant in this area
Home networking
Compaq
No reason given
Source: Hewlett-Packard
As Hewlett-Packard digests Compaq Computer, the inevitable questions of redundancy and consolidation have arisen. Analysts and others have been wondering for a while which product lines would survive. In a white paper released Tuesday, the new HP finally belched up the info. Compaq is definitely making its mark.
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