携手打造电子化世界(4)

One of the reasons our Unix systems are ideally suited to power the Extended Enterprise is our ability to guarantee 99.95 percent up time. We're the only company in the industry that can make that guarantee.

Delivering 99.95-percent uptime translates to just four hours of unplanned downtime a year. The next best offer in the industry — 99.5 percent of time — equals 44 hours of unplanned downtime a year.

In the past year, we have accelerated our product-development efforts. The result is a Unix roadmap that we believe will keep us in a clear position of leadership.

The V2250 systems we introduced earlier this month are based on our new, 240 MHz PA-RISC processor. They are the world's fastest single-processor Unix servers —

ideally suited for mission-critical and technical applications. We expect to double high-end single-system performance each year.

That means that today's high-end of a V-Class system will be the midrange of our family by the year 2000. Furthermore, we plan to take today's 99.95 percent availability guarantee and push that up to 99.999 —

5 minutes of unplanned downtime per year — by the year 2000. We call this our " 5nines:5minutes" vision,

and we have succeeded in getting two powerful industry leaders — Cisco and Oracle — to embrace this vision and work with us to achieve it.