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Q&A: HP's Carly Fiorina: Page 4 of 6

Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina last week addressed HP's Americas partners, underscoring their $50 billion contribution to HP's $73 billion in annual revenue last year as well as their
April 01, 2004

Q: You made an interesting Linux PC announcement recently in Asia. Can you talk about where you see Linux playing out in the enterprise market, and will we see Linux PCs in North America at some point?

Fiorina: To be very honest with you, the Asia press made more of that announcement than we would ever have guessed. The reason you're gonna see certain things like Linux PCs occur in a market like China is because the cost points are so different, the price points are so different and the customers' requirements are very different. Linux-based PCs, in my judgment, are going to be an application for developing markets with very stringent price point requirements, and they're going to stay there for some time. It's not to say that Linux will never come to the desktop. Eventually, Linux will come to the desktop, but we have a long way to go before Linux comes to the desktop and meets the requirements of a developed market like the U.S.

Q: What about on a grander scale?

Fiorina: We're the leading Linux server player in the world today, by a lot.

Q: You mentioned that your third priority was accelerating growth. What, specifically, do you expect in the enterprise area, which you said has been a challenging area?

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