text: As part of the merger with Compaq in 2002, HP discontinued their NetServer line that had been produced the same year ProLiant servers debuted in the early 1990s, and inherited the ProLiant line of servers among other products by Compaq (which includes the NonStop line of servers (which were formerly owned by Tandem Computers, inc. and brought out by Compaq in 1997) and the Presario line of personal computers, as well as the iPAQ line of personal digital assistant (PDA) devices).
  In February 2012, HP announced the ProLiant generation 8. In July 2013, HP announced a new blade server-based ProLiant, the HP Moonshot Server.
  DL580 Gen8 is a "middle generation" between Gen8 and Gen9. This server has some of new features introduced in Gen9, primary there is available UEFI boot option.
  Starting August 28, 2014, HP ProLiant Gen9 series were available based on Intel Haswell chipset and DDR4 memory. First were the HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 Server and HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Blade. Servers in this generation support both BIOS and UEFI.
  On November 1, 2015, HP split up into two separate companies, HP Inc., and HPE. As part of the spilt, HPE inherited the ProLiant line of servers from the original HP along with a few others such as the NonStop line of servers originally by Tandem Computers and Compaq.