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PALO ALTO, CA -- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) today introduced the first intelligent IT infrastructure solution encompassing software and services that can drastically reduce infrastructure deployment and operational costs for businesses with large computing environments. The HP Utility Data Center (UDC) solution enables customers to reduce costs significantly by improving IT asset use, decreasing the risk of IT over-provisioning and eliminating physical data center reconfigurations. HP also announced new HP OpenView and HP Netaction software and global services to improve business and operational flexibility and robustness and dramatically improve customer service levels. Additionally, HP is making Web services pervasive across platforms by offering the HP Application Server for free as a download from http://www.hp.com These offerings provide customers with the means to manage diverse environments and a platform to develop, integrate and deploy new revenue-generating voice and data services. HP is also in discussion with BEA Systems to complete a global strategic alliance for enterprise e-business software solutions. The discussions include potential co-marketing and sales initiatives around BEA WebLogic software offerings and HP OpenView management solutions. "With our growing emphasis on software and services, HP is able to help customers improve their IT asset use and better manage their ongoing operational costs, which increases return on investment," said Duane Zitzner, president, HP Computing Systems. "With the software and solutions announced today, we'll be able to help customers build and manage extremely cost-effective data centers that are integral parts of their always-on Internet infrastructures."