Compaq Professional sp750 Overview

May 2000
Prepared By

Workstation Division

Segment Marketing

Compaq Computer
Corporation

WHITE PAPER

Better Solutions for Parametric
Technology Corporation’s Customers

Abstract.

CONTENTS

Compaq
Workstations for

PTC Customers ............3

Overview.....................3

A New World of

Computing ...................5

Better Computing
Solutions for
Manufacturing

Companies ...................9

The New PTC
Mechanical
Engineering

Solutions................... 13

Windows 2000 and
Windows NT
Migration for

Workstations.............. 22

Complex
Workstation
Solutions for PTC

Customers................. 24

The close partnership between Comp aq and PTC makes Compaq workstations the
best choice for many PTC users. Compaq workstations provide the best
price/performance available for many PTC solutions. This whitepaper details the
Compaq/PTC relationship and the benefit it brings to PTC users.

Workstation

Options..................... 27

A Note About
Workstation

Benchmarks ............... 29

Web references ........... 31

Sales Information ....... 31

Summary ................... 32

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Better Solutions for Parametric Technology Corporation’s
Customers

North America First Edition (May 2000)

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COMPAQ WORKSTATIONS FOR PTC CUSTOMERS
OVERVIEW

PTC is the leading supplier of CAD/CAM/CAE software tools used to automate the development of
a product from its design concept through production. More than 24,000 companies worldwide use
PTC’s integrated software technologies to reduce time to market, improve engineering processes,
and optimize product quality.

Pro/ENGINEER®, PTC’s leading software application, is a highly advanced product development
software tool that supports collaborative product commerce in the areas of industrial design,
mechanical design, functional simulation, and manufacturing. Through the use of Pro/ENGINEER
on Compaq Professional Workstations, multiple disciplines within a company can contribute
simultaneously to a single product m odel, thereby reducing the company’s overall time to market.

Compaq is the leading supplier (#1) of workstations to PTC customers - as announced on
December 2, 1999. Compaq also has nearly twice the Windows NT and Windows 2000 market share
of its nearest competitor, according to PTC’s new license registrations for the MCAD market.
Compaq has achieved this level of market acceptance as a result of the following:

Leading Performance - Compaq workstations provide leadership performance technology at
competitive prices, enabling engineering managers to achieve shorter development times through
higher engineering productivity. This, coupled with Compaq’s leadership in graphics, allows
engineers to easily see and understand their designs, check out fresh ideas and concepts, test and
analyze these concepts, share them for review, and convert them to cost -effective designs with
documentation for production.

Compaq Engineering Excellence - With Compaq’s intensive engineering efforts, Compaq’s
workstation family can consistently offer the latest Intel and graphics technology, and be the first
to market with new products while providing high quality and reliability. In one recent example,
Compaq shipped the Intense 3D Wildcat graphics technology over 3 months ahead of the
competition. In another example, Compaq announced new workstation products, and took orders on
the same day Intel announced the availability of its new chip.

Award Winning Design - Compaq workstations consistently win awards for their performance. One
of the recent awards was Bench99, sponsored by Connect Press Inc. the publishers of ProE The
Magazine. Compaq won in the categories of the fastest Windows NT workstation, the fastest CPU
and the best price/performance. Leading workstation vendors submitted a combined total of 21
systems.

Technology Change Protection - With technology changing rapidly, hardware vendors must not
only keep pace, but do so in a way that provides quality Pro/ENGINEER solutions. Compaq
maintains a technical lab at PTC in Waltham , where we test our new workstations with
Pro/ENGINEER regression tests well before they make it into customer’s hands. Compaq tests new
PTC applications on older hardware so that customers are not required to upgrade their Compaq
systems when they want to implement the newest versions of Pro/ENGINEER.

Specific PTC Solutions - Compaq Workstations also have many unique features that help
Pro/ENGINEER users, such as the largest available internal memory for Intel -based machines (4
Gbytes). Needed by some cust omers to handle large assemblies, this memory option significantly
speeds up model manipulation by allowing the model and Pro/ENGINEER software to be memory
resident. Engineering departments are finding this to be more of a requirement as model sizes
increase during the development cycle.

Another feature gaining in popularity is that Compaq workstations can be used with dual screens.

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For example, one screen can be focused on Intranet research identifying the least costly part, while
the other is used to enter the information into the design using Pro/ENGINEER.

Added Productivity - For users who manipulate and modify designs repeatedly throughout the day,
the Compaq Spaceball can provide up to a 30 percent productivity improvement by allowing more
rapid positioning. Also, its default Pro/ENGINEER commands allow users to eliminate multiple
mouse clicks and rapidly step through layered menu selections.

Unique Software Advantage - With the added software features of a Compaq Workstation, IT
departments can effectively manage the desktop with minimal disruption to the engineer. For
instance, Unattended Install allows IT managers to replicate the same software configuration from
desktop to desktop during installation, reducing the time needed at the engineer’s desk. Another
example is Insight Manager, with its disks monitor function, it can predict when a disk will fail and
communicate that to the IT manager, allowing it to be changed before valuable data is lost.

In many ways Compaq gears its workstations for the success of Pro/ENGINEER users and the new
Windchill Collaborative Product Commerce environment.

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A NEW WORLD OF COMPUTING

The new computing environment currently emerging is one in which all information is online and
people can securely access informati on, communicate, and conduct electronic commerce from any
place at any time. This new computing environment will radically affect the technology of the
engineering development process, affecting the way engineers, designers, customers, suppliers,
manufacturing, analysts and managers communicate and work on a design. This new computing
environment is referred to as Collaborative Product Commerce. These customer and supplier
relationships, established electronically, will enable a new framework for competitive advantage.
While enormously powerful, the complexity and scale of this change and its implementation can be
overwhelming for engineering departments and large enterprises alike. So IT managers and
engineering managers need an information technology (IT) partner that can efficiently deliver
simple and useful computing solutions that truly empower them in the Internet world.

Compaq has everything it needs to be that partner —and the best computing company in the world.
Compaq’s unique approach to computing—industry standards, deep partnerships, useful
innovation, and customer responsiveness—has established it in a leadership position in nearly
every part of the market. Compaq offers an extended range of products, services, and solutions,
from hand-held devices to ultra-large servers. In support of this huge marketplace change, Compaq
is driving all its products to support eBusiness, from web servers to the PC. For example,Compaq
currently provides servers for 70 percent of the world’s busiest web sites , six out of the eight top
ISPs, 106 out of the 112 largest stock exchanges, 60 percent of the world’s banks, and has the
number one market share for Windows NT servers.

Compaq’s goal is to establish itself as the market share leader, commanding the number one
position in all its targeted markets, and to establish the highest level of customer satisfaction and
loyalty.

Innovative Solutions for Engineers

Compaq offers the widest range of affordable, industry-standard products from the palmtop to the
data center. Our goal is to take the best, innovative, and most deserving technologies and drive
them towards wider acceptance and greater affordability.

The Aero 1500 and Aero GSM connectivity suite

Our Aero 1500 is only .5” (1.27 cm) thick and weighs only .33 lbs. (5 oz. or 150 g). It is the smallest,
lightest handheld with Windows CE on the market today. When connected to our industry-leading
Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications connectivity suite and a GSM phone, you can get
wireless access to the Internet from anywhere. Wherever you travel you can stay in touch.

Wireless LAN

Compaq led the industry with the first comprehensive wireless local area network (LAN) solutions
and it is the first fully packaged, serviceable, wireless LAN at 11 megabits per second. Our WL
products address every aspect of a wireless network environment including the client access
devices, the connectivity devices and the services that aid in the deployment and management of
the network.

Roam About Engineering

With a Wireless LAN system you can roam throughout your building with an Armada M300 or
M700 laptop and stay connected to the Internet. Compaq has the most comprehensive end-to-end

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portable solutions including the Armada M700 - which at 4.3 lbs (1.95 kg) is a no-compromise thin
and light mobile solution, augmented by a range of common docking solutions. The Armada M300
is a breakthrough design in a 3 lb (1.44 kg) notebook.

Design Projection and 3D Team Reviews

Using your Wireless LAN system and your Armada M300 or M700 laptop computer, you can add
an MP1600 projector. The MP1600 is the world’s first micro-portable projector. It weighs only 4.2
lbs (1.9 kg) and is easy to set up. When the MP1600 was announced at PC Expo, it was named a
finalist for the Best Business Computing Hardware. It replaces the expensive projectors typically
required to display 3D CAD models. The MP1600 boasts a native XGA (1024 X 768) resolution
capacity and employs AutoSynch technology to recognize the signal from the host PC and make
adjustments (from VGA to SXGA) required to fit the screen.

For design review hardware, simply connect your MP1600 projector to your laptop, run a Windchill
browser on your laptop, and access your data files through your Wireless LAN. If you design large
parts, the MP1600 provides a low -cost way to view a larger image than on a typical computer
screen. This is the new paradigm shift for Internet access, access it anywhere, anytime, and display
it for one or many.

eEngineering Workstations

With the web’s continued impact on design, engineers need more screen space. Compaq provides a
dual-screen solution, which is certified for ProENGINEER. The engineer can use one screen for
design research on the web, and the other for Pro/ENGINEER software.

In Windows NT/Windows 2000 Server–based environment

With the continued acceptance of Windows NT/Windows 2000, standards-based computing is
reaching higher and higher into the enterprise. Compaq is a market leader in providing robust,
scalable solutions for Windows NT/Windows 2000. Today Compaq ships more computers than any
company in the world. Compaq provides best -in-class costs and delivery times, while driving
innovative new technology into industry standards.

64-bit computing

Compaq enjoys a five-year head start in 64-bit computing, with mor e than 5,000 64-bit applications
currently running on Alpha-based UNIX systems all over the world. Additionally, Compaq
continues its very close relationship with Intel and is working on products for the IA64 architecture.
Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/MECHANICA have been available as 64-bit applications on Tru64 UNIX
since 1992.

Windows 2000

Windows 2000 was designed, tested and deployed on Compaq products, and Compaq has more
Windows 2000 engineering expertise than anyone except Microsoft. Our engineers actually
developed pieces of the code. Also Compaq is the only Microsoft Worldwide Prime Integrator,
which means we are the Microsoft recommended service arm for those who need help in
implementation. Compaq has the most platforms certified for Windows 2000, includi ng 35 percent
more than IBM, 85 percent more than Dell, and and 324 percent more than HP. (According to the
Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List, 1/1/00,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/search/default.asp)

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Fast at Solutions

Compaq is the industry-leading supplier of partner solutions. We have sought the best minds in the
industry so that together we can find the best answers—everything from Internet commerce to
outcomes -based decision support. The MCAD and Collaborative Product Commerce markets are
part of this effort.

But in a highly-competitive market, having the right solutions is not enough. You have to be able to
implement them faster than the competition. Compaq has made the investments to achieve this.

Peak Performance through Partnerships

Compaq partners with companies such as Parametric Technology Corporation to delivery complete
solutions of the highest quality for our customers, more rapidly and consistently than our
competitors. To ensure this happens quickly and with the highest quality, Compaq maintains
multiple testing labs. One is located at PTC in Waltham, MA. Compaq software engineers are on
site to work with PTC’s application designers and QA department. In Compaq’s labs in Littleton,
MA and Houston, TX, PTC software is used as part of the workstation development process. The
goal of these labs is to maximize the performance of our new workstations running PTC software,
prior to the first customer shipment, and to formally certify these products to PTC’s rigorous QA
certification process as rapidly as possible. With this process in place, customers get top quality
hardware designed to run at peak performance with their favorite PTC applications. Most of our
competitors do not have this level of investment in application quality testing and solution
assurance.

Responsive

Compaq is committed to forging stronger relationships with our customers through focused, global
enterprise account management, industry-leading service and support, and a commitment to sell the
way customers want to buy. Compaq now has one of the world’s greatest service and support
organizations: some 27,000 IT experts in more than 100 countries providing a central source of
advice, assistance, and accountability for even the most complex multivendor netw ork.

We offer a comprehensive portfolio of support services delivered by certified and trained experts.

The Compaq Workstation Advantages

Using Compaq workstations with PTC applications offers the following benefits:

§ Web-enabled Professional Workstations

§ Industry leading performance and technology (processor, memory, graphics, bus structure,

disk access, network access)

§ Visualization excellence for complex 3D models, and range of graphics choices

§ Tested, certified, and optimized for Pro/ENGINEER and other PTC applications

§ Maximum performance for PTC applications

§ Exceptional manageability features, reducing cost of ownership

§ Three-year warranty

§ Windows 2000 certified

§ Worldwide service organization

§ Tru64 UNIX where required

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§ Exceptional add-ons, flat panel, m ultiple screens, Spaceball, fingerprint technology

§ Affordable prices, leveraging PC economics

§ Unique solutions for PTC customers (such as the large assembly solution)

Did You Know?

Compaq is one of the premier IT suppliers around the world:

§ Compaq is the Windows NT market share leader with more than 36 percent of all Windows NT
servers sold.

§ Compaq was rated the #1 systems integration company for IT consulting by ComputerWorld.

§ Compaq is number three in systems market share for business intelligence. (Source: Palo Alto

Management Group)

§ More than 70 percent of Oracle Data Mart Suites are implemented on Compaq servers.

§ Compaq is the number one Windows NT platform for Oracle customers.

§ Compaq is the number one Windows NT platform for SAP customers.

§ Compaq is number one for AlphaServer storage. (Source: Market Perspectives)

§ According to Dataquest’s July 1999 report Compaq is the number one worldwide supplier of

Windows NT workstations supporting Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD). In the
Microsoft Windows NT MCAD segment, Compaq’s share is 18.2 percent, over 60 percent more
than the nearest workstation competitor.

§ Compaq has the number one Windows NT marketshare with all of the following strategic
partners:

§ NT Market 36%

§ Novell Market >40%

§ Oracle NT Market 36%

§ SAP NT Market 47%

§ Lotus 53%

§ PTC NT Market 26%

§ PeopleSoft 50%

§ Siebel 42%

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BETTER COMPUTING SOLUTIONS FOR MANUFACTURING
COMPANIES

The New World of computing has arrived for manufacturing companies. As such, these companies
need an IT partner they can trust to bring them solutions for multiple applications. From complex
material requirements planning systems, to order management, financial control, or engineering new
product development - Compaq has the partner relationships to bring competitive success to its
customers, and a service organization to help in implementation and support.

Compaq demonstrates these solutions at its key expertise centers around the world. Compaq’s
eBusiness solutions are geared towards manufacturing, and provide the power for the worlds
busiest web sites and most demanding Intranets. Compaq’s service organization has the skills to
support these implementations, and is the world leader in implementing Windows NT and Windows

2000. Compaq’s service organization has implemented over 2 million Microsoft Exchange seats.

Windows 2000 Solutions

Compaq’s expertise in Windows 2000 can help you to take advantage of all of the improvements in
the Windows environment. The Microsoft Windows 2000 family of operating systems has been
enhanced to address hardware, software, and system management issues that affect reliability and
availability. Enhancements to the development and testing process have also contributed to the
improved stability. Some of these new improvements include: a reduction in the number of system
failures through extensive code review and testing; a reduction in the number of conditions that
forced an operator to reboot the system; reduced recovery time; an improved installation procedure,
which prevents crucial system files from being overwritten; improved device drivers which were
frequently the source of system failure; better tools for developers, for diagnosing potential causes
of system failures, and for storage management.

With Total Cost of Ownership such a high priority for businesses, many are migrating from UNIX
systems to Windows 2000. Compaq can lead you smoothly through your migration.

Compaq provides exactly the right level of service in planning, designing, implementing, managing,
and maintaining IT solutions worldwide. Full lifecycle services allow the customer to choose the
services that are needed, when, and where. Compaq offers the industry’s most flexible,
comprehensive service portfolio with: IT consulting, systems integration, network services,
installation and startup services, migration support, maintenance, operation management, and
outsourcing solutions. Services can be tailored to support the customer’s unique business
requirements.

Multivendor solutions incorporate the best technology for the job with proven experience, partners,
and resources to keep multivendor IT solutions working together with support for more than 14,000
products from 1,300 suppliers. A single point of contact and accountability means the customer
makes one call to get the needed support. Compaq offers support agreements with key technology
partners, such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Computer Associates, PTC, and MCI, to ensure that
Compaq Services can deliver integrated service.

With a service network of 27,000 service prof essionals (including more than 2,500 Windows NT
certified engineers, 2,500 Internet and Networking engineers, more than 3,000 UNIX engineers, and
15,000 Microsoft trained specialists) at work in 550 locations in 114 countries, Compaq’s reach is
global. Compaq is there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, ready to support customers in the way that
best suits their computing and business environment.

Compaq Services has received the following awards and commendations:

§ Number One in customer satisfaction according to a ComputerWorld Reader’s Survey

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§ One of the top two systems integrators according to Information Week

§ One of the top four Internet/Intranet integrators according to Gartner Group

§ Best NT-UNIX Integration Program according to IDC

§ Number One Microsoft Wor ldwide Prime Integrator for Windows NT

§ Novell Service Excellence Award

Workstation Solutions

Using PTC on Compaq workstations is a solution that is helping many of our manufacturing
customers increase their efficiency:

• “With Compaq and PTC, we have reduced our 3D modeling time by 30 percent over our
former solutions, at a fraction of the cost. By switching to Compaq workstations, we have
been able to lower our initial investments for new projects, achieve higher performance and
lower our overall cost of ownership. This allows us to provide services at a more competitive
cost, produce results more efficiently and increase our profit margins.” - K. Ashok Kumar ­vice president, Engineering Services - Satyam Computer Services, LTD.

• Five years ago, designing by hand, a frame layout team could design approximately six
trucks in a day. Thanks to mechanical design automation through computer simulation,
Western Star can layout approximately thirty-one trucks a day. - Lee Johnson, CAD Support
Specialist at Western Star

• “Our engineering systems costs used to be astounding, we spent over $30,000 per engineer to
put a UNIX workstation and a separate desktop solution for documentation, office
communications and other administrative functions. With Compaq and the flexibility
provided by NT and Intel architectures, we are able to replace those two machines with a
single workstation that can run Pro/ENGINEER at several times the speed, plus handles e­mail, runs Microsoft Office and Windows-compatible applications, and does it for less than
25 percent of the cost.” - Milton Orloff - senior systems programmer for Steelcase, Inc.

The affordability of Compaq solutions, and their focus on low cost of maintenance, allows
manufacturing companies to maintain their own cost competitive structure.

Cost Effective/High Performance Solutions Through Partnering

Compaq (including Digital prior to the acquisition by Compaq) and PTC have had a business
partnership for over 14 years. In fact, Compaq uses PTC software to design its workstations, PCs
and servers, and PTC uses over 1,000 Compaq workstations and servers worldwide. Compaq
provides more Windows NT solutions to PTC customers than any other company.

Together, Compaq and PTC offer scalable solutions from the desktop to the data center. Through
the Compaq/PTC partnership, Compaq workstations are designed, fully tested, and certified for PTC
software.

Cost effective/high performance solutions require a commitment to partnering at a technical level.
At the PTC corporate headquarters, Compaq’ s fully-staffed labs work with PTC application
engineers for certification, software testing, Alpha optimization, quality assurance, and on-site
technical support of customer issues. At this lab Compaq maintains multiple generations of systems
and tests PTC’s new releases on them to ensure PTC applications will continue to operate smoothly
on our older equipment.

Another example of partnering, Compaq workstation products are designed for leadership
Pro/ENGINEER 2000i2 performance, especially with large files, which is a concern to many PTC

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