HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

Note 19: Segment Information (Continued) offerings include entry-level, mid-range and high-end arrays, storage area networks (‘‘SANs’’), network attached storage (‘‘NAS’’), storage management software, and virtualization technologies, as well as tape drives, tape libraries and optical archival storage. • HP Software provides enterprise IT management software solutions, including professional services and support, that allow customers to manage and automate their IT infrastructure, operations, applications, IT services and business processes under the HP Business Technology Optimization (‘‘BTO’’) brand. The portfolio of BTO solutions also includes tools to automate data center operations and IT processes. These solutions are reported as BTO Software. HP Software also provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables communication service providers to deploy revenue generating infrastructure and applications, customer intelligence and billing systems, and operational support systems. In addition, for media companies and distributors, HP Software provides solutions that address content management and streamlining of digital media workflows. HP Software further provides information management and business intelligence solutions, which include enterprise data warehousing, business continuity, data availability, records management, compliance and e-discovery products and services that enable our customers to extract more value from their structured and unstructured data and information. These solutions are reported as Other Software. HP’s other business segments are described below. • Personal Systems Group provides commercial PCs, consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. Commercial PCs are optimized for commercial uses, including enterprise and SMB customers, and for connectivity and manageability in networked environments. Commercial PCs include the HP business desktops and notebooks, HP EliteBook Tablet Pcs, the HP EliteBook and ProBook lines of professional notebooks, as well as the HP Mini-Note PC, HP Blade PCs, Retail POS systems, and HP Thin Clients. Consumer PCs are targeted at the home user and include the HP Pavilion and series of multi media consumer desktops and notebooks, as well as the HP Pavilion Elite desktops, HP Envy Premium notebooks, Touchsmart PCs, HP and Compaq Mini notebooks, Voodoo Gaming PCs and the Media Smart Home Server. HP’s Z series desktop workstations and HP Elitebook Mobile Workstations provide advanced graphics, computing, and large modeling capabilities, certified with applications in a wide range of industries and running both Windows and Linux operating systems. PSG provides a series of HP iPAQ Pocket PC handheld computing devices that run on Windows Mobile software. These products range from basic PDAs to advanced devices with voice and data capability. • Imaging and Printing Group provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media and scanning devices. IPG is also focused on imaging solutions in the commercial markets, from managed print services solutions to addressing new growth opportunities in commercial printing and capturing high-value pages in areas such as industrial applications, outdoor signage, and the graphic arts business. Inkjet and Web Solutions delivers

(1) Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. (2) Itanium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. (3) UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

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