HP Ranked No. 1 in Worldwide Distributed System Management Software Market Share; Company Also Ranked No. 1 in Worldwide Market Share for Distributed Performance and Availability Management Software Submarket.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. -- HP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue )(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that market research firm IDC has ranked HP as the worldwide market share leader in distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. management software for 2005.(1) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the IDC study, HP led the worldwide distributed system management software market category for the third consecutive year with a 14.5 percent market share for 2005.(1) In a separate IDC study, HP ranked as the worldwide leader in market share and software license revenue in the distributed performance and availability management software market category for 2005.(2) HP led the category for the fourth consecutive year, achieving market share of 21.3 percent -- more than double that of the next two closest competitors -- and software license revenue growth of 9.5 percent -- outpacing the overall one-year growth of 7.9 percent for the market category.(2) "Our continued market leadership and significant revenue growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. for these key management software categories prove that our strategy to offer the most powerful management software portfolio in the industry is paying dividends," said Deborah Traub, vice president, OpenView Products, HP. "Customers continue to turn to HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. to help cut their IT costs, speed the delivery of new services and better enable them to run IT as a business." IDC defines the market categories as "that portion of system management software used to manage systems and applications for distributed operating environments, principally UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux and Windows."(1) IDC's market research for the software categories include HP OpenView products and solutions such as: --Performance management: OpenView Compliance Manager, OpenView Business Process Insight, OpenView SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Manager, OpenView Transaction Analyzer and OpenView Internet Services; --Change and configuration management: OpenView Configuration Management solutions using Radia, and OpenView AssetCenter; --Event automation: OpenView Operations OpenView Operations (OVO) is a product of Hewlett-Packard (HP). It is built upon the foundation of their Network Node Manager (NNM) product. Whereas NNM tends to be network-monitoring focused, gathering most of its data via SNMP traps from devices or hosts, OVO tends to be a host for Windows(R), OpenView Operations for UNIX and OpenView Smart Plug-Ins; --Problem management: OpenView Service Desk and OpenView ServiceCenter. More information about the HP OpenView portfolio is available at www.hp.com/openview. About HP HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2006, HP revenue totaled $90.0 billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com. Note to editors: HP news releases are available via RSS feed Summaries of Web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. See RSS. at www.hp.com/hpinfo/rss.html. (1) Data based on IDC, "Worldwide Distributed System Management Software 2006 -- 2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares," IDC #202879, T. Grieser, F. W. Broussard, S. Elliot, August 2006. (2) Data based on IDC, "Worldwide Distributed Performance and Availability Management Software 2006-2010 Forecast Summary and 2005 Vendor Share," IDC #202855, Tim Grieser, July 19, 2006. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. 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Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the achievement of expected results and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the risks described in HP's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2006, and other 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 Oct. 31, 2005. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. (C) 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. 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