A senior Hewlett-Packard Co systems engineer who has been working on the IA-64 project since 1990 told Morgan Stanley Dean Witter’s hardware people that production schedules and other decisions have increasingly been made by Intel Corp. HP is told what will be happening, not consulted. HP told ComputerWire that while ISVs (database and application suppliers) will recompile their HP-UX PA-RISC applications for HP-UX running on IA-64, and HP-UX will be recompiled too, it expects its compiler technologies to drive code faster on HP-UX than it can perform on other Unixes. Meantime, HP told its user meet in San Diego last week that it will soon have shipped 1,000 of its high-end V-Class Unix servers versus the 500 Starfires Sun Microsystems Inc has delivered. Average selling price of Starfires is estimated at $1.2m versus $700,000 for V-Class.
