In summer 1998, there was tremendous pressure on Jim Davis, manager of ESG due to the downfall in the revenues and profits. The company had the opportunity to show improved results by strategizing its technology implementation decisions. There was an issue where Davis was to recommend whether HP should continue with the proprietary UNIX based Performance Architecture (PA) based on RISC microprocessor or shift resources to develop workstations and servers based on new chip, code named Merced and IA-64 architecture. In 1994, HP joined with Intel in development of a new 64-bit microprocessor to withstand the market competition and reduce the costs. This announcement appeared to everyone in the market that HP is pulling out of UNIX business and joining with Intel and Microsoft. Sun took advantage of this scenario and gained market momentum with the independent software vendor community, by
In summer 1998, there was tremendous pressure on Jim Davis, manager of ESG due to the downfall in the revenues and profits. The company had the opportunity to show improved results by strategizing its technology implementation decisions. There was an issue where Davis was to recommend whether HP should continue with the proprietary UNIX based Performance Architecture (PA) based on RISC microprocessor or shift resources to develop workstations and servers based on new chip, code named Merced and IA-64 architecture. In 1994, HP joined with Intel in development of a new 64-bit microprocessor to withstand the market competition and reduce the costs. This announcement appeared to everyone in the market that HP is pulling out of UNIX business and joining with Intel and Microsoft. Sun took advantage of this scenario and gained market momentum with the independent software vendor community, by