But he only offers vague assurances of "pull-through, " as the customers who load up on Compaq's industry-standard Web-servers and related equipment also turn to Compaq's services arm to link it all together.
"Customers whose companies have branch offices in Bangladesh, and run all different platforms and all different OSs, those customers will look to IBM, HP, and Compaq to provide comprehensive services, " said Paul McNamara, general manager of the business enterprise unit at Red Hat.