Fujitsu, Intel to develop new mission-critical enterprise server

Fujitsu and Intel Corporation recently announced plans to develop
mission-critical enterprise servers for the worldwide computing market. The new
Fujitsu systems, which will contain industry-standard Intel processors and run
Linux and Windows operating systems, will complement Fujitsu’s Unix and
mainframe-based mission-critical enterprise platform offerings.

Fujitsu, a global leader in large-scale, mission-critical computing
platforms, plans to make Intel Xeon processor DP and MP systems available by end
of 2004, followed by large systems based on future versions of the Intel Itanium
processor family by the end of 2005. These systems will scale up to the most
sophisticated, 128 processor-capable mainframe-class systems.

To support the collaborative effort, and following on its Linux business
strategy announcement last October, Fujitsu has created a new Linux systems
organizational structure under its Enterprise Systems Group. Comprising more
than 300 engineers and capitalizing on its mission-critical systems expertise,
including interconnect, clustering, autonomous systems and grid computing
technologies, the organization is focusing on providing hardware platforms and
core software that improve the reliability, availability and scalability of
Linux-based enterprise systems.

"Fujitsu prides itself on offering among the most reliable,
high-performance enterprise server systems on the market today, including our
highly scalable PrimePower Unix-based server and GS Series mainframe
platforms," says Tadayasu Sugita, Corporate Sr Executive VP and CTO,
Fujitsu.

"This agreement brings a new era of leading Xeon and Itanium
processor-based Fujitsu systems to demanding mainframe-class environments,"
says Mike Fister, Sr VP and GM, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group.

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