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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
Note 18: Segment Information (Continued)
uses to evaluate, view and run its business operations, which include, but are not limited to, customer base, homogeneity of
products and technology. The business segments disclosed in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements are based
on this organizational structure and information reviewed by HP’ s management to evaluate the business segment results.
ESS, HPS and HP Software are structured beneath a broader Technology Solutions Group (“TSG”). In order to provide a
supplementary view of HP’ s business, aggregated financial data for TSG is presented herein.
HP has reclassified segment operating results for fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2005 to conform to certain fiscal 2007
organizational realignments. These realignments are immaterial in size and reflect primarily revenue shifts among business
units within the same business segment. None of the changes impacts HP’ s previously reported consolidated net revenue,
earnings from operations, net earnings or net earnings per share. Future changes to this organizational structure may result in
changes to the business segments disclosed. A description of the types of products and services provided by each business
segment follows.
Technology Solutions Group. Each of the business segments within TSG is described in detail below.
• Enterprise Storage and Servers provides storage and server products. The various server offerings range from
entry-level servers to high-end scalable servers, including Superdome servers. Industry standard servers include
primarily entry-level and mid-range ProLiant servers, which run primarily Windows®(1), Linux and Novell operating
systems and leverage Intel Corporation (“Intel”) and Advanced Micro Devices (“AMD”) processors. The business
spans a range of product lines, including pedestal-tower servers, density-optimized rack servers and HP’ s
BladeSystem family of server blades. Business critical systems include Itanium®(2)-based Integrity servers running
on HP-UX, Windows®, Linux and OpenVMS operating systems, including the high-end Superdome servers and
fault-tolerant Integrity NonStop servers. Business critical systems also include the Reduced Instruction Set
Computing (“RISC”)-based servers with the HP 9000 line running on the HP-UX operating system, HP
AlphaServers running on both Tru64 UNIX®(3) and OpenVMS, and MIPs-based NonStop servers. HP’ s
StorageWorks offerings include entry-level, mid-range and high-end arrays, storage area networks (“SANs”),
network attached storage (“NAS”), storage management software, and virtualization technologies, as well as tape
drives, tape libraries and optical archival storage.
• HP Services provides a portfolio of multi-vendor IT services including technology services, consulting and
integration and outsourcing services. HPS also offers a variety of services tailored to particular industries such as
communications, media and entertainment, manufacturing and distribution, financial services, health and life
sciences and the public sector, including government services. HPS collaborates with the Enterprise Storage and
Servers and HP Software, as well as with third-party system integrators and software and networking companies to
bring solutions to HP customers. HPS also works with HP’ s Imaging and Printing Group and Personal Systems
Group to provide managed print services, end user workplace services, and mobile workforce productivity solutions
to enterprise customers. Technology Services provides a range of services, including standalone product support and
high availability services for complex, global, networked and multi-vendor environments. Technology Services also
manages the delivery of product warranty support through its own service organization, as well as through
(1) Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
(2) Itanium® is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
(3) UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
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