| The Hewlett-Packard is a Compaq Development | | | | Hewlett-Packards Website |
| Company, commonly known as HP, is currently | | | | |
| the world's largest information technology | | | | Hewlett-Packard was originally rather |
| corporation and is known worldwide for its | | | | unfocused, working on a wide range of |
| personal computers, printers, Notebook etc... | | | | electronic products for industry and even |
| HP was founded on January 1, 1939 as a | | | | agriculture. Eventually they elected to focus |
| manufacturer of test and measurement | | | | on high-quality electronic test and |
| instruments, by Bill Hewlett and Dave | | | | measurement equipment. HP has a successful |
| Packard, with an investment of 538 United | | | | line of printers, scanners, digital cameras, |
| States dollars. And now it is one of the | | | | calculators, PDAs, servers, workstations, and |
| most selling computer worldwide.HP posted | | | | home-small business computers. HP today |
| US$91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006 | | | | promotes itself as not just being a hardware |
| compared to US$91.4 for IBM, making it the | | | | and software company, but also one that |
| world's largest technology vendor in terms of | | | | offers a full range of services to architect, |
| sales. The company name, Hewlett-Packard, | | | | implement and support today's IT |
| was derived from the founders last names. Had | | | | infrastructure. |
| Bill not won a coin toss, the company today | | | | |
| might be known as Packard-Hewlett HP has | | | | As of October 2006, HP offers six |
| many sponsorships. One well known sponsorship | | | | customizable notebooks which carry the |
| is Walt Disney World's EPCOT Park's Mission: | | | | Pavilion name. |
| Space. Others can be found on | | | | |