	The Benefits of CHARON-AXP

VAX & ALPHA

Virtualization

· You can use your existing licenses.

o HP provides extension licenses, which provide a continuation of your existing HP software warranty agreements when running on CHARON-AXP environment.

o Oracle Corporation supports Alpha versions of Oracle Rdb and Oracle CODASYL DBMS and their related products running on CHARON-AXP. In fact, Oracle does all of their Alpha development on CHARON-AXP emulators. And, in most cases, Oracle license and service agreements are transferred to the same number of CHARON-AXP processors at no charge.

· Take advantage of leading edge disk technologies – CHARON-AXP works on systems that utilize technologies such as:

o RAID 1 or RAID 5 drive set

o Fibre Channel/SAN

o SCSI

o SAS

o NAS

o I-SCSI

· Rapid implementation on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron hardware with increased performance.

· Reduces cost of ownership by replacing old hardware that is expensive to maintain.

· Cut server room overhead. Save floor space and electricity consumption by replacing your existing cabinets of Alpha hardware with 1U of rack space.

· Applications run much faster than on the original Alpha hardware.

· Preserves your current application investments. No need to migrate or modify applications.

· No change in current business processes or operational skills.

· Extend on new platforms, create room for future growth.

· Match your application needs. CHARON-AXP emulates many Alpha hardware models (31xx, 4xxx, 66xx, etc.) and memory configurations up to 2GB.

· Accepted as a legitimate Alpha replacement. The CHARON products were certified using the original AXE hardware verification test suite of Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha engineering group.

· Adaptable product design and flexible support, licensing and pricing conditions to satisfy the defense industry, OEM or high-volume end user needs, at a price you can afford.

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