Hewlett-Packard Co has come under criticism from analysts at Annex Research, who claim that the company inflated the competitive advantages of its Snake workstation by omission (sounds like normal marketing practice): Hewlett, says Annex, did not show the most powerful workstations from IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp on its SPECmark chart, emphasising its own lead, and did not even show the MIPS Computer Systems Inc Model 6280, then the second most powerful after IBM; and when measured in MFLOPS, the 730 comes second to the IBM RS/6000 Model 550, thus disproving Hewlett-Packard’s claim to lead the industry – by any measure, say the Annex Research folk.
