HP Ranked No. 1 in Worldwide Distributed System Management Software
Market Share; Company Also Ranked No. 1 in Worldwide Market Share for
Distributed Performance and Availability Management Software Submarket

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2006--HP
(NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that market research firm IDC
has ranked HP as the worldwide market share leader in distributed
system management software for 2005.(1)


According to the IDC study, HP led the worldwide distributed system
management software market category for the third consecutive year
with a 14.5 percent market share for 2005.(1)

In a separate IDC study, HP ranked as the worldwide leader in market
share and software license revenue in the distributed performance and
availability management software market category for 2005.(2)

HP led the category for the fourth consecutive year, achieving market
share of 21.3 percent -- more than double that of the next two closest
competitors -- and software license revenue growth of 9.5 percent --
outpacing the overall one-year growth of 7.9 percent for the market
category.(2)

"Our continued market leadership and significant revenue growth rates
for these key management software categories prove that our strategy
to offer the most powerful management software portfolio in the
industry is paying dividends," said Deborah Traub, vice president,
OpenView Products, HP. "Customers continue to turn to HP OpenView to
help cut their IT costs, speed the delivery of new services and better
enable them to run IT as a business."

IDC defines the market categories as "that portion of system
management software used to manage systems and applications for
distributed operating environments, principally UNIX, Linux and
Windows."(1)

IDC's market research for the software categories include HP OpenView
products and solutions such as:

-- Performance management: OpenView Compliance Manager, OpenView
Business Process Insight, OpenView SOA Manager, OpenView Transaction
Analyzer and OpenView Internet Services;

-- Change and configuration management: OpenView Configuration
Management solutions using Radia, and OpenView AssetCenter;

-- Event automation: OpenView Operations for Windows(R), OpenView
Operations for UNIX and OpenView Smart Plug-Ins;

-- Problem management: OpenView Service Desk and OpenView ServiceCenter.

More information about the HP OpenView portfolio is available at
www.hp.com/openview.

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printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2006, HP revenue
totaled $90.0 billion. More information about HP is available at
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(1) Data based on IDC, "Worldwide Distributed System Management
Software 2006 -- 2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares," IDC #202879,
T. Grieser, F. W. Broussard, S. Elliot, August 2006.

(2) Data based on IDC, "Worldwide Distributed Performance and
Availability Management Software 2006-2010 Forecast Summary and 2005
Vendor Share," IDC #202855, Tim Grieser, July 19, 2006.

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