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."