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From: "HP Partner News" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "HP Partner News" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: a message to hp channel partners: hp's commitment to hp-ux and unix
computing


May 7, 2002

Topic:  HP's Commitment to HP-UX and UNIX Computing

To: HP Channel Partners

From: Mark Hudson, Director of Worldwide Marketing
HP Business Systems and Technology Organization


HP-UX Statement

Make no mistake about it, UNIX is - and will continue to be - a vibrant,
strategic platform for Hewlett-Packard Company.  With the completion of our
merger with Compaq, the new HP is now the largest UNIX vendor in the world.
In contrast to some vendors who lose money on their UNIX business, HP's UNIX
business has always been a significant contributor to HP's bottom line - in
terms of both revenue and profit - and we will continue to drive and grow
HP's UNIX server business in order to satisfy our customers' most demanding
business requirements.

HP has over 1.6 million UNIX licenses worldwide.  Our fiercely loyal
customers deploy HP-UX in a wide variety of environments, ranging from the
desktop to the data center to the most demanding mission-critical roles.  In
fact, HP today leads the market with over 60,000 mission-critical UNIX
installations across the globe.  A key factor behind HP's success in the
UNIX server marketplace is HP's broad range of strategic alliances and
relationships with the ISV community.  There are more than 16,000
applications available today on HP-UX.

HP strongly believes in supporting a multi-OS strategy to best meet the
needs of its customers, and providing an enterprise UNIX operating system is
a crucial component of this strategy.  We look forward to bringing some of
Tru64's key features and functionality into HP-UX, allowing HP to continue
to lead the UNIX market in key areas such as performance and scalability,
mission critical availability, end-to-end manageability and OS security.

HP's continued commitment to the HP-UX operating system is demonstrated
through its ongoing investment in R&D, which accounts for a significant
portion of HP's overall R&D spending.  HP has thousands of R&D engineers
around the world who are furthering the innovation of HP-UX in the areas of
high performance and scalability, always-on availability, partitioning and
manageability, security, and seamless interoperability with Windows and
Linux operating systems.  HP continues to invest in HP-UX, with major
initiatives around Operating Environments, Utility Computing and
Per-Processor licensing.

Looking ahead, HP is committed to providing UNIX server solutions based on
the PA-RISC and Itanium Processor Family architectures.  The strategy
includes bringing platforms to market that are based on PA-RISC today and
are easily upgradeable to future PA-RISC and Itanium processors, while
maintaining complete binary compatibility with the 64-bit HP-UX operating
system.

As the world's largest technology company and UNIX vendor, HP would be
foolish to abandon this strategic and profitable area of our business.  Rest
assured that our merger with Compaq will only strengthen our position and
commitment to UNIX.

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