携手打造电子化世界(5)

So let me turn now to our other systems business — PCs. HP has come from virtually nowhere to become a major player — No. 3 in the world, according to IDC at the end of FY 97.

This growth has been fueled by product contributions. Last year, HP earned more than 50 awards for new products introduced in the PC arena.

We've been stressing the three major areas you see here. First, manageability.

We believe that we can help customers reduce the total life cycle cost of PCs by about half. Notice I said life cycle costs, not just purchase price.

We have developed a powerful management package called TopTools, and it allows IT administrators to gather 350 key items of information about the PC and to manage the PCs remotely.

This information feeds into HP OpenView's Desktop Administrator to deliver the most comprehensive desktop-management solution on the market.

HP PCs, NetServers and desktop management system were recently employed by the Government of China in a prototype project which hooks up the Sichuan Province Economic Information System to the National Information Center.

Second, availability. We are working with Microsoft to deliver high availability on NT servers.

We were the first in the industry to ship Microsoft Cluster Server, which provides shared storage between two computing nodes

and automatically restarts an application on another node if one fails.