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HP tackles $35bn converged IT market

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  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 04 November 2009
Hewlett-Packard is to launch a set of products and services, which it claims will help firms achieve better insight into their business, faster application development and greater flexibility in responding to market changes.

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