The second quarter revenue for HP, was very high, a whooping 51 % rise in profits http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060516/earns_hp.html?.v=15 This is the same HP, which was dying a couple of years back. The results have exceeded analysts expectations. Mark Hurd surely seems to be delivering. More importantly, HP might overtake IBM as the biggest IT company. Its 2Q revenues of $22.6 billion have overtaken IBM's 1Q revenues of $20.7 billion. Have a look at HP and IBM's propaganda, and its very clear that the battle between these two giants has become fierce now.
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/107553-0-0-0-121.html?ERL=true the above speaks about HP-UX 11i, and it is titled "The Real Story about HP-UX 11i", and makes some statements like HP holds the # 1 position in units and revenue for high-end enterprise UNIX on a worldwide basis. Seems interesting. Also keep in mind that IBM is investing heavily in AIX, and AIX is improving, with support for NFSv4 in AIX much before other *nix vendors. Personally, I was very much surprised that HP-UX 11i is still around :-)
However it remains to be seen, if HP can sustain this sort of growth.
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