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PC Week: HP moves to safeguard online retailers against crashes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 1999

“Hewlett Packard Co. on Tuesday here at PC Expo will announce
Linux and Windows NT versions of its WebQoS software.

“WebQoS helps safeguard online retailers against crashes by
prioritizing customer requests into three groups and allocating a
predesignated amount of memory and CPU to each customer, thereby
balancing bandwidth to specific Web servers.”

“WebQoS, already available as a feature of the company’s HP-UX
Unix derivative, will be featured on Red Hat Software Inc.’s Linux
by month’s end…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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