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The following bulleted lists provide recent facts about HP's strong growth, financial performance and market success across all business units. Corporate

• HP ranked No. 7 on the List of 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Business Ethics Magazine.
• HP was named to the Corporate Knights Inc. 2005 Global 100 list for customer sustainability, defined as producing an overall impact on society and the environment.
• HP remained the No. 1 vendor worldwide in overall small and medium business hardware, according to the IDC 4Q PC Tracker, and increased its share in servers to 31.7 percent, more than 8 points ahead of Dell.
• HP ranks No. 4 on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's list of the top 10 organizations receiving patents. Worldwide, HP added approximately 4,000 patents to its portfolio in 2004, an average of 11 per day. Its total patent portfolio stands at about 25,000.
• HP Canada was ranked No. 1 for corporate social responsibility by the Report on Business Magazine.
• HP was cited as a catalyst in Enhancing Careers of Women by the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network.
• HP's employee portal, hpNOW, won five Dalton Pen Communications Awards.
• HP rose from No. 16 to No. 3 in the annual Asian Wall Street Journal 200, a survey ranking multinational companies for their overall leadership in the Asian market.
• HP's e-inclusion program is bringing the benefits of technology to more than 100 underserved communities across 13 countries and impacting more than one million lives each day.
• HP has approximately 150,000 employees in more than 170 countries.

Technology Solutions Group

• HP's Managed Services business grew 27 percent year-over-year, outpacing the market growth rate cited by IDC by approximately three times, while HP Consulting and Integration grew 10 and HP Technology Services grew 11 percent.
• HP boasts a growing list of more than 4,000 Integrity ISV applications.
• Software deals valued at $1 million and above continue to grow, with a 57 percent increase for HP OpenView and a 43 percent increase for HP OpenCall in the past year.
• HP recently introduced a host of new Storage Works products, including Enterprise Virtual array, Clustered Gateway and WAN Accelerator Enterprise File Services, HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System, and ILM Services.
• Cisco named HP Services its "Gold Partner of the Year" in the Europe, Middle East, Africa region and recognized HP Italy with its "Outstanding Customer Satisfaction" award.
• HP OpenView Select Access 6.0 was the winner in the 11th Annual Well-Connected Awards sponsored by Network Computing.
• HP Consulting and Integration is the leader in system integration for fab automation, with over 56 percent market share compared to IBM's 19 percent, according to Gartner/Dataquest.
• HP received Frost & Sullivan's 2004 Business Development Strategy and Leadership award for Identity Management Solutions.
• HP OpenView Infrastructure Management was a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 20th Annual Codie Awards.

Imaging and Printing Group

• HP total printer unit shipment growth was 12 percent year-over-year, with consumer hardware units up 13 percent. Multifunction printer unit growth was 61 percent and color LaserJet shipments were up an astounding 96 percent.
• HP received 12 top honors for digital photography products at the Photo Marketing Association show.
• PC World Magazine ranked the HP PhotoSmart 8450 No. 1 among photo printers.
• Laptop Magazine tabbed the HP mp3220 Digital Projector an Editor's Choice.
• Consumer Reports ranked the HP PhotoSmart 375 the top 4x6 photo printer.

Personal Systems Group

• HP's Personal Systems Group posted record profits in the second quarter of fiscal year 2005 and contributed revenues of $6.4 billion.
• HP launched the HPxw9300 Opteron-based workstation, which won the Best of FOSE award honoring innovative products in government IT.
• In the Asia Pacific-Japan region, PSG logged unit growth at twice the market rate and achieved more than $1 billion in quarterly revenue.
• In the Europe, Middle East, Africa region PSG retained No. 1 market share and improved operating profit as a percent of revenue by more than 5 times year-over-year.
• The Americas region posted a 16x improvement in profit as a percent of revenue.
• HP introduced 5 new business notebook platforms across Thin & Light, Mobile Desktop, and Convertible categories and announced iPAQ Mobile Messenger in partnership with Good Technology.
• The new HP Pavilion dv4000 entertainment notebook received PC Magazine's Editors' Choice award.