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To: Night Writer who wrote (97284)	4/22/2002 12:17:17 PM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

HP Announces Storage Services Customer Wins; HP Offerings Help Customers Capitalize on Storage Technology Investments Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2002-- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) today announced new storage services customers that are working with HP to get the most out of their storage technology investments. Customers such as Korea's Chonbuk National University Hospital and Continental Airlines are turning to HP for help in improving the availability, agility and usage of their heterogeneous and increasingly complex storage environments. HP's storage services include consulting, support, outsourcing and education and span the full lifecycle of storage environments. In addition, HP provides support for multivendor storage environments, including network attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), storage area management (SAM) and virtualization. Chonbuk National University Hospital (CUH), Korea's leading academic health center, chose HP to design, implement and support a total storage solution to manage its central Order Communication System -- a comprehensive tool that improves office and clinical efficiency while improving patient care. HP provides remote monitoring and diagnostic processes for the system that investigate and resolve potential problems before they impact business. "Storage at CUH is more important than ever and is very much central to our IT strategy," said Dr. Young Gon Kim, professor, department of urology, and director, planning budget, CUH. "As our data grows and becomes more complex, we rely on HP to make sure the hospital is protected and supported with dependable storage services. HP was chosen for its proven capabilities in storage and proved to be the right choice." HP is working with Continental Airlines to implement a SAN that offers highly efficient storage use and management as well as scalability to match its environment. The SAN is comprehensively managed by HP OpenView Storage Area Management software and supported by a full lifecycle of storage services. "We have to balance a desire to maintain control over our storage environment with a need for outside professional assistance," said Dan Morales, managing director, revenue accounting systems, Continental Airlines Technology Division. "We have been using HP storage devices for some time and are continuing to tap into HP's storage services so that we can meet service-level commitments, achieve year-on-year cost reductions and continuously improve our storage environment. We feel very positive about the storage services that HP has to offer." Customers also benefit from HP's wide range of storage service offerings, which include world-class storage competency centers and interoperability labs located in regional facilities; data migration, storage consolidation, management and monitoring of software technologies; and more than 2,000 dedicated storage service professionals. In addition, HP's partnering strategy includes important allies such as Brocade, Imation Corp., OPNET and VERITAS Software to provide customers with storage solutions that work best for their needs. For example, HP plans to work with Brocade, a leading provider of SAN infrastructure, to provide multivendor SAN infrastructure support and HP SAN environment support to customers worldwide. "HP clearly understands what and where customers' pain points are when it comes to storage environments," said Doug Chandler, program director for storage and data management services, IDC. "HP has taken the time to build its expertise and make investments in the right places and is now very well-positioned to work with enterprises as they look to address storage and data issues, and take their storage architectures to the next level." According to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc., storage capacity demand, business continuity requirements and managed storage opportunities will drive the worldwide storage services market and worldwide storage services revenue is expected to grow from $26 billion in 2002 to $41 billion in 2005.

To: Night Writer who wrote (97284)	4/22/2002 12:20:33 PM
From: PCSS	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

<Commenting specifically on the re-nomination of Walter Hewlett, Fiorina noted, "As we complete the merger, our imperative is to minimize distraction and disruption so that all our employees can focus their energies on serving our customers. The proxy contest is over, and the spotlight should now turn to the business benefits that the HP team can and will deliver for our customers, partners and shareowners. This nomination solidifies our resolve to move on from the rancor of the past months. We expect Walter Hewlett to join the rest of the new board in embracing both our management team and our strategy." > I'M SURPRISED (and somewhat disappointed) -- WW has shown any DIS-RONCORing & surely WOULD NOT try to EMBRACE WW

To: Night Writer who wrote (97284)	4/22/2002 12:21:58 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

NW -- I saw this one * Walter B. Hewlett, independent software developer and chairman, Vermont Telephone Company NOT Walter Hewlett independent musician, student, & fool

To: Night Writer who wrote (97284)	4/22/2002 2:45:45 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Dear NW: What is this??? What happened in the background for Carly and the rest of the BOD to change their minds and put WW back on the list? Something smells like dead fish to me. Quoting from a posting by Michael the beginning of the month: "The board's decision not to nominate Walter Hewlett is based on his ongoing adversarial relationship with the company, as evidenced by his recent litigation against HP, as well as concerns about his lack of candor and issues of trust." Message 17268359 Something must have happened in the background. Not good. Lynn