Staples Inc.

Staples (Nasdaq:SPLS) is a $9 billion provider of office supplies, furniture, technology and services to consumers and businesses of all sizes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. Headquartered near Boston, Staples invented the office superstore concept and is the largest operator of office superstores in the world. The company has 50,000 employees who help customers slash the cost and hassle of running their businesses through more than 1,100 retail superstores, an e-commerce business, direct mail order operations under the brands of Staples and subsidiary Quill Corporation, and a national accounts contract business. "Since moving over to the HP 9000 Enterprise Servers, we've upgraded hardware multiple times, performed HP-UX 11.0 operating system upgrades and application upgrades -- and the servers have stayed steady and available. In fact, I can't remember the last time we had an unplanned outage. Looking forward, we have ongoing plans to phase out smaller applications and replace them with best-in-class HP-UX-based applications running on HP 9000 Enterprise Servers. As a valued IT partner, HP is focused on our business issues and providing solutions to solve them, and as a result, Staples' standard open systems platform is now HP."

SilverTech Inc.

SilverTech Inc., a provider of end-to-end, fully-encrypted private Internet networks, has launched eKids Internet with support from Hewlett-Packard. eKids Internet is a safe, fun, educational environment where children can play, learn and communicate with other children around the globe. As part of a long-term partnership with SilverTech, HP's Security Consulting organization assessed SilverTech's business model and technology needs and designed a comprehensive solution that enables the company to realize its e-services vision. HP 9000 Enterprise Servers running HP-UX 11 will power the company's virtual private networks, and HP will secure the entire communications path to provide an encrypted connection between SilverTech and its subscribers. HP is also providing financing and network integration services as well as mission-critical support. While eKids is the first private network to leverage SilverTech's private Internet engine technology, others will follow. SilverTech plans to create a private, secure network for the government sector as well as networks for groups of business professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, and universities around the world, all powered and supported by HP.
"HP Consulting helped us refine our e-services delivery model, assessing our needs and risks and designing a comprehensive solution that enables us to deliver our services in a safe, secure and fun environment. We literally could not run our business without the reliable, scalable and robust end-to-end Internet infrastructure HP designed. HP-UX 11i, for example, will provide Internet-critical functionality and high performance that ensures our users have a positive, reliable experience. But it doesn't stop there. HP also is delivering expert network integration services as well as mission-critical support and financing -- in other words, everything we need to expand our fully-encrypted private Internet networks into a global market. HP's core competencies are key to helping us to be successful."

ServiceEngine.com

"HP is enabling us to work smarter, faster and more creatively in our development of an extremely sophisticated Web-based application. Its total solutions approach has been critical because now we have instant access to high performance servers and disk storage systems, and an incredibly solid networking infrastructure -- from a single, reliable source. And its support is unmatched: to get us up and running, they didn't just send a technical consultant, they sent the person who actually wrote the book on HP-UX 11.
"It is clear that HP is committed to making Carly Fiorina's mission a reality, from sales to service. I wouldn't trust the future of this business to a partner that would commit to anything less."

RemoteNet Corporation

RemoteNet Corporation was founded in 1996 to provide Internet-based services that optimize predictability, reliability, and security for the enterprise and e-business IT infrastructure. Using the RemoteView Portal, customers can access real-time decision tools for monitoring, managing, and maintaining system performance thresholds. RemoteNet's end-to-end solution approach, rapid service deployment, and subscription-based pricing provides substantial savings for companies that maintain high performance standards in delivering their core business solutions.
"RemoteNet selected HP WebQoS because it allows us to go beyond just monitoring online performance to executing key corrective actions. WebQoS enables our clients to achieve exceptional and consistent online performance. RemoteNet is now able to differentiate our unique service delivery model with industry leading service-level agreement guarantees. With the combination of WebQoS and HP OpenView, RemoteNet is able to provide a powerful, integrated end-to-end solution."

Moai Technologies Inc.

Moai Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of negotiated e-commerce solutions for online auctions, online procurement and trading exchanges. LiveExchange?, Moai?s powerful negotiated e-commerce software application, is part of Trading Communities Solutions, the HP-BroadVision Enterprise Business Portal Solution (EBPS), and HP's other strategic offerings. LiveExchange enables companies to cost-effectively create robust, scalable negotiated e-commerce exchanges that can be custom-tailored for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer requirements.
"HP e-speak, HP-UX 11i and other key technologies from HP are valuable to building highly scalable, reliable and flexible trading exchanges and online auctions for marketplaces. By leveraging these advanced Internet technologies from HP, we're helping our customers turn innovative business models into successful negotiated e-commerce sites."

Meridex

Meridex Network Corporation is a leading application service provider (ASP) of e-business solutions that dynamically brings buying and supplying organizations together within a real-time electronic marketplace on open intranet architecture. It is the first integrated retail and wholesale exchange in Canada with full business-to-business and business-to-consumer transaction capabilities. Using the services of meridex.com?, companies are able to reduce operational expenses, increase efficiency and expand market share by automating the entire goods and services supply chain. Information about Meridex and its services ."Meridex's vision is to allow brick-and-mortar businesses to easily and affordably Web-enable their buying and selling processes using just a Web browser and standard Internet connection. In addition, companies are also able to access our applications via wireless devices anytime, anywhere. Relying on HP 9000 L-Class and N-Class Enterprise Servers running the HP-UX 11 operating environment, we're launching a new way for corporations, suppliers and retailers to do business."

LetsBuyIt.com

LetsBuyIt.com has attracted widespread publicity as Europe's first Internet-based cooperative buying company. Formed in Sweden in January 1999, the company launched its first Web site in April of the same year. By the end of 1999, it had expanded its coverage to include 11 European countries, with the ability to offer more than 80,000 different products and services, ranging from computer hardware to travel packages to Christmas trees. With Internet shopping undergoing an explosion worldwide, LetsBuyIt.com has built a very successful business in an extremely short time. Currently, the company estimates that its Web site attracts more than 100,000 visitors each day. This figure makes it Europe's largest e-commerce site in terms of customer and visitor numbers.
"We looked at many different products but concluded that HP Changengine was the best product for our purposes. As regards the technical platform, the choice was easy too. HP is the leader in the construction of infrastructure for business-critical solutions."

IAM.COM

IAM.COM is the world's first Web site dedicated to education, community, professional resources and the opportunity for legitimate industry discovery in acting, modeling, music and dance. Industry professionals will be able to "cyber cast" -- searching for the newest face or specific background to fit the role. IAM.COM is a subscription-based service for portfolioed members that does not represent talent or take transaction fees.
"HP provided valuable expertise throughout the design and implementation of our recent Web site launch. HP furnished several HP-UX specialists to assist with designing the company's network infrastructure, and also configured and tested the solution off-site before installing it at our data center. As a component of our overall solution, the HP-UX 11 operating environment is the best choice we could have made in planning for scalable, mission-critical Internet application development. HP was a valuable partner throughout this whole process, and was integrally involved from conceptual design and architecture verification to installation."

Hitel Co. Ltd.

Korea Telecom Hitel Co. Ltd. is the Internet arm of Korea's largest fixed line provider and second largest cellular operator, Korea Telecom. Hitel was one of the first movers in the quickly developing Korean Internet market and has continued to hold a leading position since its founding in December of 1991. The company is currently growing from its core OSP/ISP access business into an integrated Internet services company with the expansion of its e-commerce and Internet portal divisions. Korea Telecom currently owns a 66 percent stake in the company. Hitel's revenues were $56 million for year ended December 1999, which represents an approximately 50 percent compound annual growth rate since 1992.
"Hitel is emerging as a 21st century leader in Internet-based information and communications. We are relying on HP's dynamic e-speak platform to provide our next-generation service offerings with the competitive edge we need to lead the market and to create an experience that will keep our customers coming back to the Hitel portal."

Herman Miller

Herman Miller is an international firm that primarily manufactures and sells furniture, furniture systems, products and services principally for offices, health-care facilities and residential environments. The firm was founded in 1923 and maintains headquarters in Zeeland, Mich. The company's Web site ."HP provided a high-quality solution with a lot of flexibility for both configuration and expansion. The HP 9000 N4000 has great performance and it is able to scale well to meet our growth requirements. We were very pleased when we upgraded the operating system of our existing K-Class servers to HP-UX 11.0 and found that the process was painless and the new version improved the servers' performance.