In a subtle piece of advertising on the Internet, Hewlett-Packard Co has installed a four-workstation information server on the network to provide up-to-the-minute news on the company’s workstations and business servers in an interactive, visually exciting format. Access to HP’s World of Workstations and Servers is available to Internet users or browsers worldwide. The information server, part of the Worldwide Web, is accessible on via the Mosaic graphical user interface developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and comprises four Series 700 Model 735 workstations installed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The information is connected via hypertext links, and links to the company’s corporate server enable users to access information about its other products and services. Meantime Oracle Corp says its Oracle Media Server software is now up on Hewlett-Packard Co’s Interactive Video Server. Pacific Telesis Group Inc’s Pacific Telesis Video Services unit is to use the Interactive Video Server – which is built around a video transfer engine – a California trial.
