Monday, September 3, 2007

Technology and products
"The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer" is "ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer."
A HP DV6000 Notebook Computer
A modern Low-end HP Laptop; the HP Pavilion VD6000
A modern HP digital camera; the HP Photosmart R817.
A camera that uses the SDIO interface

HP has a successful line of printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers, workstations, and home-small business computers, many of the latter were acquired during the 2002 merger with Compaq. HP today promotes itself as not just being a hardware and software company, but also one that offers a full range of services to architect, implement and support today's IT infrastructure.


Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)

According to HP's 2005 U.S. SEC 10-K filing,[9] HP's Imaging and Printing Group is "the leading imaging and printing systems provider in the world for printer hardware, printing supplies and scanning devices, providing solutions across customer segments from individual consumers to small and medium businesses to large enterprises." This division is currently headed by Vyomesh Joshi.

Products and technology associated with the Imaging and Printing Group include:
Inkjet and LaserJet printers, consumables and related products
OfficeJet all-in-one multifunction printer/scanner/faxes
Large Format Printers
Indigo Digital Press
HP Web Jetadmin printer management software
HP Output Management suite of software, including HP Output Server
LightScribe optical recording technology that laser-etches labels on disks
HP Photosmart digital cameras and photo printers


Personal Systems Group (PSG)

HP's Personal Systems Group is "one of the leading vendors of personal computers ("PCs") in the world based on unit volume shipped and annual revenue."[9]

Personal Systems Group products/technology include:
Consumer PCs including the HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and VoodooPC series
Workstations for Unix, Windows and Linux systems
Handheld Computing including iPAQ Pocket PC handheld computing devices (from Compaq)
Digital Entertainment including DVD+RW drives, HP Movie Writer and HP Digital Entertainment Center. HP resold the Apple iPod until November 2005.[9]

Technology Solutions Group (TSG)

In HP's financial reporting, HP groups its Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Services and Software under Technology Solutions Group.

HP's Enterprise Storage and Servers Group has product/technology including:
the ProLiant entry line of x86 based servers (from Compaq)
the BladeSystem x86 (ProLiant BL) and Itanium based blade servers (from Compaq)
the Integrity server line using the Itanium processor architecture (with Intel) running on several operating systems including HP-UX (a UNIX implementation)
the AlphaServer productline using the Alpha processor (from DEC) and running on both:
Tru64 operating system (from DEC)
the OpenVMS large-scale, highly available server operating system (from DEC)
the NonStop high-reliability architecture and operating system (from Tandem Computers)
MIPs based Nonstop fault-tolerant server products
the PA-RISC processor architecture for the HP 3000 and HP 9000 computer lines
the HP 9000 Integrity Superdome line of Servers and workstations
the StorageWorks EVA storage arrays (from Compaq)
the StorageWorks product line (from Compaq), which includes business class and enterprise class data storage and protection products.[10]
the ProCurve family of network switches, wireless access points, and routers.[11]

HP's Software division has products/technologies:
the OpenView family of management software
the OpenCall family of telecom software

With the major acquisitions of Peregrine and Mercury Interactive completed, HP has dropped the names OpenView, Peregrine and Mercury from its portfolio. The Business Technology Optimization (BTO) part of the software division is now being referred to as HP Software. The OpenCall branding still remains.

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