HP missionaries convert 250+ mainframe shops
Have you seen the Itanium light?
For all the talk about the competition between server platforms, very few machines are in play at any given time. And this is particularly true of big iron, like high-end RISC/Unix servers, proprietary midrange gear, and mainframes. But when times get tough, those venerable back office systems start looking expensive, and that’s exactly what Hewlett-Packard is hoping for – at least when it comes to the mainframe base. (Certainly not for Unix gear…)…


