HP has set an industry-first milestone by shipping more than 1 million Linux servers to customers since 1998, 45 percent more than any other major hardware vendor.

HP has led the worldwide Linux server market for 29 consecutive quarters. In the first quarter of 2005, HP grew 2.5 percentage points faster than the market in units on a year-over-year basis, shipped nearly 10 times as many Linux servers as Sun, led IBM by almost 8 percentage points in quarterly revenue share and outpaced Dell in both units and revenue.

Tom Payne (’86) tracked it down to Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) found it is on public display in Zurich. It was so cool to watch on windy days. Those huge slabs were the size of a small car and could really get whipping around. Check out the animation on Tom’s site.

I wonder how much it would cost to buy it back? Any rich RPI’ers out there?

Hit google for more info on the wonderous Chrinitoid

Some kind of personal best — from signing in to heading back to the office — a total of 1:15m.

And I got a free t-shirt out of the deal.

Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday.

](http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/16/HNendofalpha_1.html)

Goodbye old friend.

[Check out the tombstone generator](http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/tombstone.php)

My office has been declared a Windows Free Zone

Office
Archaeologists will notice the ‘Digital is a Software Company’ coffee mug, the ‘Compaq Solutions Alliance Test Drive Linux license plate’ and the various ‘hp invent penguins’

Treasures uncovered so far:

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* “VMS Forever” and “I (heart) My VAX” bumperstickers (watch for it on ebay.com
)
* Desktop-VMS 1.0 and 1.1 CDs — Circa 1989 ‘ease of use’ VMS distro. Just pop
the CD in the drive and it leads you through creating a VAX cluster of VAXstat
ion 3100s. Included of number of DECwindows-based (X11 with DECW$ toolkit) sys
tem management apps designed for the VMS newbie.
* Compaq 1998 project plan for “Linux Investigation” — Mostly produce install
docs for ProLiant 1850R & AlphaServer 800 for the Linux 2.2 kernel.
* Andy Goldstein’s 5-May-1988 memo to VMS V5 Development Team about the Kevin M
itnick breakin and the procedures on how we were going to verify 100% of the co
de.
* LaTeX-generated printout of “Real Programmers write in Fortran” about Mel the
programmer
* LaTeX-generated printout of “Real Programmers Don’t Use PASCAL”
* Bunch of Perl Journals (RIP)
* Marketing glossies for MailWorks for UNIX (aka OSF/1, aka Tru64)
* Christmas holiday card from the Microsoft MCIS Product Team
* Christmas holiday card from Red Hat
* Unopened(!) Microsoft Internet Explorer V2.0 Beta Internet Bro
wser for Windows 95 (required 386DX, 8MiB memory, 1-3MiB disk, 14.4 bps or fast
er modem)
* Bunch of 2400b Scholar Modems
* External 100MiB SCSI disk (MAC connectors)
* Addy’s birth announcement web page (April 1998) printed out in color on high
gloss

Can’t wait to see what gets uncovered today!