I've spent the bulk of my time talking about how HP is helping customers build and manage their Extended Enterprise infrastructure. And it's probably appropriate that this discussion has taken most of my time, because that's the foundation upon which...
Our financing Organization provides a simple, single point of contact for financing, leasing and re-marketing products. It also offers innovative technology refresh programs that will automatically upgrade a customer's assets and dispose of the obsol...
In the past three years, HP's systems integration and consulting service has shown tremendous growth. It has become a vital ingredient in the formula for our success with our Chinese customers and partners. You see our areas of expertise listed here....
We have a few other IT-infrastructure software products that I'd like to discuss today, but in somewhat less depth than HP OpenView. HP OpenMail provides the backbone for messaging in a mission-critical, high-availability environment. Most people thi...
This year we strengthened our position by acquiring the networking business unit of a company called Symantec. This provided HP OpenView with new capabilities for software distribution, inventory, configuration, trouble-shooting, licensing for deskto...
I've spoken about our systems strategy for powering the Extended Enterprise. Now I'll move onto some important software products. HP OpenView is an industry-leading software product that is aimed at helping customers manage their Extended Enterprise...
It will enable both Unix and NT to run on the same hardware platform. The architecture provides excellent investment protection for customers running applications on current Intel-based and PA-RISC systems. Customers can run their current application...
We have integrated into the solution some technology brought over from the Unix side of the house, called Cluster View, which makes it possible to monitor multiple Microsoft Cluster Servers. This is another one of the benefits customers receive from...
So let me turn now to our other systems business PCs. HP has come from virtually nowhere to become a major player No. 3 in the world, according to IDC at the end of FY 97. This growth has been fueled by product contributions. Last year, HP earned mor...
One of the reasons our Unix systems are ideally suited to power the Extended Enterprise is our ability to guarantee 99.95 percent up time. We're the only company in the industry that can make that guarantee. Delivering 99.95-percent uptime translates...