HP and Gateway Team to Deliver Enhanced System-Management Solutions for Business Customers - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Dec 6, 1999

Hewlett-Packard Company and Gateway, Inc. Thursday teamed to deliver enhanced system-management solutions for Gateway business customers. HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager is now offered as a standard management tool on the full range of Gateway ALR servers.

HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager is an integrated, proactive network-operating-system performance-, event-, and server-management solution that is offered at no additional charge on Gateway ARL servers.

"Server reliability and availability is critical to our clients' businesses," said Chris Norman, director, server product marketing, Gateway Business. "By incorporating the HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager with our existing management tools, we provide IT managers with another proactive tool they can use to manage their systems for maximum productivity. The end result is greater client and end-user satisfaction."

HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager is designed to ensure that distributed server environments are running optimally 24 hours a day, seven days a week so that IT administrators can reliably run business-critical applications. It increases IT administrators' productivity by allowing them to monitor the performance of their networked Microsoft Windows NT and Novell Netware environments from a single, central management console.

"We're pleased to partner with Gateway to ensure that Gateway ALR servers shipped with HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager provide improved manageability and high-availability for Gateway customers," said Olivier Helleboid, acting vice president and general manager of HP's OpenView Software Business Unit. "The combined solution from HP and Gateway simplifies server management, ultimately saving clients both time and money."

Gateway ALR servers offer broad network-operating-system support, including support for Microsoft Windows NT, Novell Netware, UNIX systems and Linux, offering clients the scalability, reliability, serviceability and manageability required for mission-critical business applications, from small businesses to enterprise environments. Gateway servers are available in tower and rack-mount form factors and are complemented by a wide range of service and support product offerings. The Gateway ALR server family includes the 7000 series dual-processor capable workgroup server, the 8000 series departmental servers and the scalable 900 series enterprise-class servers.

Gateway, a Fortune 250 company founded in 1985, focuses on building lifelong relationships with consumers and businesses through complete technology personalization. Gateway ranked number one in U.S. consumer PC revenue in the second quarter of 1999(1) and was rated among the top ten best corporate reputations in America according to a survey conducted in August of 1999 by Harris Interactive and the Reputation Institute and published in The Wall Street Journal. Gateway employees worldwide provide clients with services and built-to-order computers that consistently win top awards from leading industry publications. Gateway had total global revenue of $7.5 billion in 1998 and shipped 3.54 million systems. For more information, visit our Web site at www.gateway.com

(1) According to GartnerGroup/Dataquest US PC Quarterly statistics.

HP is one of the world's largest providers of integrated management solutions for applications, systems, networks, software, desktops, security, storage and IT services. HP OpenView solutions are at work in more than 120,000 multivendor distributed computing environments worldwide. Together with offerings from more than 200 partners, HP OpenView offers a complete portfolio of services and management solutions on all major platforms.

More information about HP OpenView solutions is available on the Web at http://www.openview.hp.com.

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services.

HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments.

HP has 83,200 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.