HP Finishes 2003 with Record ProLiant Server Shipments; Tenth Anniversary of Market-Leading HP ProLiant Servers Surpasses More Than 8 Million Servers Sold.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2004 HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ) today announced record shipments for the industry-standard HP ProLiant server line during the company's fiscal year 2003. In conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the ProLiant brand, HP announced customers across multiple industries that have embraced HP as the hardware vendor of choice as they move toward becoming adaptive enterprises. HP has recently shipped ProLiant servers to customers including Yahoo!, Townsend Analytics, Indoff Incorporated, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is a publicly-traded brand of coffee based at Waterbury in the U.S. state of Vermont. The brand specializes in organic, fair-trade, and specialty gourmet coffees. Keurig is wholly owned subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. , Inc., Imperial Sugar, Appriss Inc., NYFIX, PepsiAmericas, Oslo Bors ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and , and Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospital. To date, HP has shipped more than 8 million ProLiant servers worldwide to customers ranging from small- and medium-sized businesses to large corporations. "The first to market with an industry-standard server offering, HP has a rich history of continued innovation that has earned the trust of our ProLiant server customers for the past 10 years," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "The latest chapter in this history marks more than 8 million ProLiant servers and more than 50,000 blade servers A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and sold. No other hardware vendor offers a more complete server offering, which makes it easier for customers to integrate this legacy of innovation and better compete in their own businesses." HP ProLiant: innovation today, tomorrow and beyond "We have come to know HP as a trusted technology partner that provides the products, services and solutions which support many parts of our business," said Kevin Timmons, director, engineering operations, Yahoo!. "Yahoo! has a global user base of 245 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month, and the reliability of our IT infrastructure is a key component of our success. We rely on more than 7,000 industry-standard HP ProLiant servers to ensure secure and continuous operation of our consumer web site, as well as our back-end applications." "Townsend Analytics prides itself on providing customers with fast, reliable trading data -- and HP ProLiant servers play a crucial role in helping us uphold this commitment," said Mike Felix, director of marketing, Townsend Analytics. "Keeping our customers connected to the exchanges through our RealTick trading system The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. is of vital importance as market activity increases." "We chose HP ProLiant servers as the infrastructure to power our external web applications for our sales people, and also power our new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. software and Intranet, as we needed a solution and not just a piece of hardware," said Shawn Faulkingham, director of information technology, Indoff Incorporated. "HP is the only company with both innovative IT solutions for the real world and an affordable price point. I feel confident in HP's ability to keep us up and running no matter constraints of business." Today, companies of all sizes trust more of their infrastructure and mission-critical computing to the x86 platform See x86 chip platform. and even blade servers. These same companies are also using a combination of Windows(R) and Linux on the IA-32 platform and leading software products from Oracle, SAP and other companies to power their businesses better, faster and more affordably. As the world's leading provider of IA-32 and blade solutions across multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and platforms, HP is using aggressive pricing strategies There are many ways in which the price of a product can be determined. The following are the foremost strategies that businesses are likely to use. Competition-based pricing Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products. to differentiate its enterprise product offering and increase market share. HP solidified its position as the leading worldwide x86 server vendor with 31.9 percent market factory revenue share and 32.3 percent share of shipments in the third quarter of 2003.(1) HP ProLiant: a decade of innovation "Ten years ago I challenged my CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. to grow the business faster than HP's ProLiant family of industry-standard servers could scale to meet our needs. After 10 years of growth averaging in excess of 20 percent CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate , we still run our entire company on the ProLiant platform and see no limitations in scalability to meet our future demands," said Jim Prevo, vice president and chief information officer, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. "Our installed base of 60 ProLiant servers runs 100 percent of our applications and delivers dependable, cost-effective performance to our users every day of the year." HP has built the industry's broadest portfolio of industry-standard products and solutions to provide the essential tools and support that help businesses of all sizes stay competitive. Servers in the HP ProLiant family range from single-processor file and print servers to virtualized blades to powerful eight-processor servers supporting complex mission-critical applications. In November 2003, HP introduced the HP ProLiant 100 series, which is ideal for both small- and medium-size businesses and compute-intensive cluster environments. Other HP ProLiant server key innovations and milestones: -- First major vendor to introduce blade systems (December 2001) and first to ship four-processor blade server (January 2003). -- First industry-standard server manufacturer to include management tools with every industry-standard server. -- Sold more than 400,000 ProLiant Essentials management software suite licenses. -- First to introduce hot-plug RAID memory, which provides the highest level of memory fault protection in the industry. -- Jointly developed the F8 chipset for even higher performance and bandwidth. -- Only vendor able to provide fully customized, integrated rack solutions in six to 10 days through HP Factory Express - ready to deploy upon delivery. More information about HP ProLiant servers is available at www.hp.com/products/servers/platforms. About HP HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the fiscal year ending on Oct. 31, 2003, HP revenue totaled $73.1 billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com. (1) IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Nov. 27, 2003. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. This news release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the period ended July 31, 2003 and HP's other Securities and Exchange Commission reports filed after HP's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2002. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. 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