The company founded in 1939 as Hewlett Packard (in a garage in what became Silicon Valley) merged in 2002 with Compaq Computer Corporation.

HP had combined revenue of approximately US$81.7 billion in 2001, with operations in over 160 countries. At that time it embraced including enterprise storage, servers and management software; printer hardware, digital imaging devices such as cameras and scanners, and activity in the commercial printing market; IT services for business; personal-computing solutions such as desktop PCs, notebooks and handhelds.

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David Packard, one of the grand-daddies of Silicon Valley, described his partnership with William Hewlett in The hp Way: How Bill Hewlett & I built our company (New York: Harper 1996).

Deone Zell's Changing by Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard (Ithaca: Cornell Uni Press 1997) is a specialist academic study, dry but perhaps more convincing than Profit from Experience: The National Semiconductor Story of Transformation Management (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1996) by Gil Amelio & William Simon.



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