HPs Linux Strategy

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HPs Linux Strategy
Open Source Solutions Operation
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Agenda

• Overview
• Opportunity
• Product Strategy
• Support Strategy
• Summary

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Participants
Open Source Solutions Operation Mike
Balma Alliance Manager Heidi Eisips Linux
Program Mgr Software Services Division John
Koskinen Linux Support Mgr NetServer
Division Lorraine Bartlett Product
Marketing Mike Smith Technical
Marketing Michelle Figini Technical Marketing
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What Is Linux?
Overview

• POSIX-like OS created by Linus Torvalds in 1991
• Worldwide development effort coordinated via
  Internet
• Distributed under GNU General Public License
  (GPL)
• Packaged versions available for commercial
  distribution from Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, others
• Runs on Intel and RISC architectureswith a
  single-source code base

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Market Overview
Market Shares for Linux Distributions
Source IDC, 98
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Linux is the Fastest-Growing OS in the World
Market Overview
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Where is Linux successful today?
Market Overview

• Developer Seat
• Pilot/Test System
• Scientific/Technical
• Workgroup File/Print, DB
• Dist. Replicated Site Server

Enterprise

• Web Server
• Proxy/Cache
• E-Mail, DNS
• Firewall/VPN
• Appliances,Thin Servers

• ECOM
• Enterprise (IA-32 dev)

ISV/VAR
ISP
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Some HP LINUX Customers
Market Overview
Daimler-Chrysler RD Department Sixt-Autovermie
tung Booking System Dep. Ikea -
Möbelgrosshandel Logistic Database EDEKA
AG Logistic Database Bosch RD Department
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Linux Growth Drivers
Technology Overview

• Price Linux is free or inexpensive to acquire
• Speed Compact kernel, tuned IP stack, x86
  optimized
• Stability Less complex, more bug-free than NT
• Support Hot fixes patches received in hours
  from extended Linux community
• Cost Cheap, old Intel machines can be recycled
• Flexibility Kernel access for software
  development
• Breadth Available on Intel and popular RISC
  machines

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Linux Growth Inhibitors
Technology Overview

• Lack of packaged applications and tools
• Ease/Speed of installation and configuration
• Availability of training and quality
  documentation
• Scalability beyond 4 processors, HA/ Clustering,
  JFS

• Hacker OS reputation, mistrust of freeware
• FUD regarding governance, roadmap,
  accountability, balkanization
• Development and support model scalability
• Understanding legal issues / licensing schemes

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Linux Functionality Comparison - Gartner
Group
Technology Overview
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Aberdeen Groups in depth report on HP, Open
Source and Linux
Strategy

• HP is making the right moves with its evolving
  Linux strategy.
• All enterprises with an interest in capitalizing
  on Linux as a low-cost, reliable, robust OS with
  increasingly greater range in scalability should
  put HP on the short list
• Aberdeen believes that HP understands - and is
  positioned to deliver - what it will take to make
  Linux a key OS player in Web commerce
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  Aberdeen Group
  5/99

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HPs View is that Linux is for Real!
Strategy
The Hypeometer
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Key software technologies available
TechnologyOverview

• ERP
• SAP
• Lawson

• Management
• HP OpenView
• CA TNG

• SW Dev/Tools
• Cygnus (GNU)
• Allaire

• Database
• Oracle
• IBM DB2
• Informix
• Software AG
• Ingres

• Messaging
• HP OpenMail
• Netscape

• User Interface
• GNOME
• KDE
• X-Windows

• Middleware
• BEA Tuxedo
• IBM MQ Series
• HP WebQoS

• Web
• Apache
• Netscape

• Workgroup
• Corel
• Applix

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HP is positioned for Linux Growth
Strategy
SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE
SERVICES
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HP Linux Systems Roadmap
Strategy
IA-64 Leadership
PA-RISC (HP 9000 A-Class, Q1, 2000)
NetServers HP Visualize WS (IA-32, Today)
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HP NetServer Family 99
Products
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HP VISUALIZE XL550 Linux Workstation
Products

• Single or Dual 550MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon
  Processors
• 128MB - 1GB 100MHz SDRAM
• One or two 9.1GB Ultra Wide SCSI 10,000 RPM
  internal disks
• Red Hat Linux 6.0
• Linux preconfigured and pre-installed
• ISV applications from Avant!, Mentor Graphics,
  Synopsys and more

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Linux Clustering
Parallel Computing with HP Workstations
Linux supports parallel computing, so-called
Beowulf Cluster CERN (European Consortium for
High Energy Physics) use 16 Linux HP Kayaks,
instead of the IBM SPSupercomputer
In January 1998 Hewlett-Packard and GSI started a
joint project on Linux PC Clustering at CERN

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Products
Timeline for Linux on HP 9000

• Oct. 98 - Project idea by Puffin Group
• Feb. 99 - HP support begins
• March - Preliminary docs to Puffins
• May 1 - Linux kernel boot on PA 1.0
• May 19 - First in person team meeting - Linux
  Expo (Some top Open Source players
  involved)
• June 1 - Complete A- Class docs to Puffin
  developers
• June 1 - Boot loading code does work
  (preliminary bootstrap code uses ISL and is
  in development kernel)

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HP LINUX IA64 Port
Strategy

• IA64 -gt EPIC cowork between Intel and HP
• LINUX/IA64 Port
• gt Full 64-bit NetOS
• gt efficient large file support
• gt vast virtual address space
• gt will Support LINUX/x86 binaries
• HP began port 2/98
• gt based on IA64 simulator
• gt now 6-way Open Source Project with Intel,
  Cygnus, CERN, SGI and VA Linux

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HP Linux/Open Source Software Roadmap
Software
Evaluating
Implementing
Available
HP-UX Debugger
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E-speak Open Services Platform
Software
The lingua franca of e-services

• Universal e-services interface
• E-services run-time environment
• Dynamic service discovery
• Service brokering and mediation

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WebQoS
Software
Consistent Quality for E-Services

• Build Loyalty ? Protect Revenue ? Reduce
  Operational Costs
• stabilize service during periods of heavy
  Internet demand
• optimize use of equipment investments
• prioritize customers

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Develop on LinuxDeploy on UX/Linux/NT
Strategy
Develop
Deploy
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Linux/HP-UX API Compatibility
HP-UX
Linux
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Common Tool Chain Cygnus GNUPro
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Contributed Tech, gdb, SAM, etc.
HP NetServer
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Instantly Ignited Turn Key Dev Seat
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HP Linux Services
Services

• Worldwide 24x365 support for Linux
• 2-hour response commitment
• Unlimited phone-in or electronic call submittal
• Support for major Linux distributions
  multivendor Intel hardware
• Access to comprehensive database of multivendor
  product and support info
• Linux training courses at HP Education Centers
  worldwide

Open Support for Open Systems
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Ideally Positioned to Deliver Worldwide Support
and Education
Services
Services
Bristol Dusseldorf Stockholm Winnersh Geneva Madri
d Milan Paris
Atlanta Caracas Sao Paulo Mountain View Buenos
Aires Mexico City Montreal Dallas
Seoul Hong Kong Melbourne Singapore Tokyo
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Linux Support Online
Services
A family of Web-based services that offers
one-stop access to up-to-date support information
and tools...
Call Submittal

• Search and view HPs vast store of technical
  documents
• Access over 300,000 technical documents
  (including Microsoft, Novell, Netscape, Cisco,
  and Linux)

• Electronically submit your questions to the HP
  Response Center
• Check the status of your submittals
• Add comments to open software calls
• View your call history online

http//europe-support.external.hp.com
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HP Education Path for Linux
Services
For more info see http//education.hp.com
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A new eservice enabled by HP
PartnerServices
HP
Open Source Developer Community
sourceXchange
An electronic marketplace and coordination center
for software development
May 1999 Linux Expo
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HP Open Source Leadership
Summary

• Open Source Solutions Operation (OSSO)
• Systems leadership and growth path
• Key HP software technology support for Linux
• 1st to market with 24x365 worldwide Linux support
• Sponsoring corporate member of Linux
  International
• Ground-breaking partnerships with Open Source
  community

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For more info please visit...
Web Sites
www.hp.com/go/linux www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc
www.sourceXchange.com