What is the ISV Certification plan for the HP xw4300 Workstation?
HP has very strong relationships with independent software vendors (ISVs). The software vendors recognize that HP is a critical ally in the industry, not only as a hardware OEM, but in marketing and support relationships. HP, in many cases, has engineering personnel located full-time on site at these software vendors’ location providing technical support, application performance tuning, and graphics driver optimization. ISV certification is a critical aspect of the workstation value proposition. Workstation customers are running very complicated, high-end, technical applications and reliability and stability are an absolute requirement. The entry workstation is targeted at specific technical applications, many of which were listed above. The following table outlines the applications that are planned for the HP xw4300. Some of the applications listed in the table do not certify hardware, but they are listed as “targeted” applications. For those applications listed above that do offer ha
