January 16, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) said on Thursday that it generated a company record $2.5 billion in Linux-based revenue for the fiscal year 2003.
In conjunction with the announcement, the company unveiled the releases of various new systems that run on the Linux platform.
In business notebooks, HP released four models, the HP Compaq nc6000, nc8000 and nw8000, running on SuSE Linux desktop. And in desktops, HP announced the release of HP Compaq business desktop D530 and D330 PCs, both with SuSE Enterprise Linux.
HP also unveiled several new Linux reference architectures, which will be deployed on HP ProLiant servers and later on HP Integrity servers. They include a commercial Linux reference architecture, based on Oracle Database/9iRAC and BEA WebLogic Server and an open source reference infrastructure architecture, based on open-source software from MySQL, JBoss, Apache and OpenLDAP.
HP said the solutions are tailored to enterprise customers migrating from Solaris, AIX and Tru64.
