Compaq cuts back on server size

Later this year, Compaq Computer will jump into the nascent market for tiny servers that use less power and take up less space than current products. The Houston-based computing giant plans to release "hyper-dense" servers sometime this year, Mary McDowell, general manager of Compaq's Industry Standard Server Group, said Monday at the Banc of America Securities Conference in San Francisco. These servers will be smaller than Compaq's (cpq) current dense servers, which measure 1.75 inches thick. Full story. --Michael Kanellos, Special to ZDNet News