Wintel HP roadmaps to get Herculean treatment next year

The problem HP has it that has a widely disparate group of different products using various microprocessors and a number of separate operating systems, making for a stew simmering on a number of different back burners.

It's like having three companies inside one, with the Windows stalwarts fighting its patch, while the other two companies are also ready to enter the ring at a moment's notice.

Just tracking the ISS (industry standard server) changes is a job that requires the patience of, er... Job.

We'll attempt to lead you through the ISS maze.

According to information, the Proliant ML310, an entry level server, will last be built in October, it's currently available with a 2800MHz Intel chip. This machine will be replaced either by the P4 based TC 2120 or the ML330 G3.

The ML330, a two processor model, will see the end of its days in June next year. The Proliant ML350, meanwhile, which is an expandable two way rack server, is set to be discontinued in July next year.

The Proliant ML370 G3, another two way server but for corporate data centres, will also see its last build in July next year, at which time it will be using a 3.06 INtel Xeon machine. The Gallatin based ML570s are also being discontinued between January and August of next year.

Proliant DL320s, DL360s, and DL380s are also due to be phased out in August of next year, and that's also true for the DL560s, the DL580s, the DL740s and the DL760.

All of this suggests to us that HP is going to make a huge push in summer of 2004 with a wholly refreshed range of X86 based servers, almost definitely based on the snazzy new Intel chips that will arrive in the first half and third quarter of next year. µ