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Hewlett-Packard Co. , as it prepares to split in two, is unveiling on Tuesday a plan to help retain important customers by allowing them to leave behind a processor technology that has found few takers besides H-P.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company said it would offer versions of two computer server lines under H-P’s Integrity moniker—Superdome and NonStop—that will be powered by Intel Corp. ’s Xeon chips, which are widely used in other servers from H-P and other vendors. Its Integrity machines now use Intel’s Itanium chips, a specialized strain of technology that sprang from a joint venture between the companies two decades ago.
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Revenue from these “business-critical” servers, as H-P calls them, declined 29% in the quarter ended in October over a year earlier. But Superdome and NonStop servers are still used by banks, telecommunications carriers and other companies particularly concerned with reliability.
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