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To: StanX Long who wrote (60002)	2/5/2002 2:16:08 AM
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Hewlett Packard opens new Unix plant in Singapore By Jennifer Tan sg.news.yahoo.com Tuesday February 5, 2:14 PM SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co Ltd has opened an Asia Pacific production centre for Unix servers in Singapore, which the U.S. computer and printer maker sees as key to maintaining its leadership in the network computing market. HP, in the process of attempting to merge with Compaq, said its Singapore Configure-to-Order (CTO) facility, its third in the world with the other two located in the U.S. and Germany, would result in an improvement of up to 50 percent in delivery times for Asia Pacific customers. "This is an investment undertaken with the goal that we will extend our leadership (in Unix servers) in terms of market share, and we will be able to meet our customers' needs better in the long term," Michael Muller, vice president of HP's server and workstation operations in Asia Pacific, told Reuters on Monday. Unix is an open-source operating system, meaning its code is freely available, in contrast to proprietary products such as Microsoft Windows, which keeps its code under lock and key.