Compaq aims at e-commerce
Published: 17 Mar 1998 12:39 GMT
The applications range from a desktop electronic commerce application, built by Inex, to ProLiant servers equipped with Microsoft's Site Server Enterprise and Raptor Systems' firewall according to officials.
Compaq will sell the ProLiant 850R, with 32MB of memory, and the ProLiant 6500 server with 128MB of memory and a 4.3GB hard drive. The 850R, with the Microsoft commerce software and Raptor security software, will cost $13,396 (£8,269).
The company is also building a set of enterprise e-commerce applications designed to handle large volumes of transactions called the iTP Certificate Solution. Built in conjunction with Compaq's Tandem division, they are expected to cost in the six-figure range and will be sold with high-end servers.
The products are being aimed at banks and other financial institutions - traditional Tandem strongholds.
"It's just a repackaging of what is already out there," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Piper Jaffrey in the US. "From their perspective, their people need to wear one hat - the Compaq hat. When you sell a high-end server [you want] follow-on sales of mid-level servers, etc., to be the standard Compaq package."
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