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So let me turn now to our other systems business — PCs. HP has come from virtually nowhere to become a major player — No. 3 in the world, according to IDC at the end of FY 97. This growth has been fueled by product contributions. Last year, HP earned more than 50 awards for new products introduced in the PC arena. We've been stressing the three major areas you see here. First, manageability. We believe that we can help customers reduce the total life cycle cost of PCs by about half. Notice I said life cycle costs, not just purchase price. We have developed a powerful management package called TopTools, and it allows IT administrators to gather 350 key items of information about the PC and to manage the PCs remotely. This information feeds into HP OpenView's Desktop Administrator to deliver the most comprehensive desktop-management solution on the market. HP PCs, NetServers and desktop management system were recently employed by the Government of China in a prototype project which hooks up the Sichuan Province Economic Information System to the National Information Center. Second, availability. We are working with Microsoft to deliver high availability on NT servers. We were the first in the industry to ship Microsoft Cluster Server, which provides shared storage between two computing nodes and automatically restarts an application on another node if one fails.
接下來(lái)我要談?wù)勎覀兤渌南到y(tǒng)業(yè)務(wù)，即PC機(jī)。事實(shí)上，惠普是從白手起家開(kāi)始發(fā)展成為主要的生產(chǎn)廠商的。據(jù)國(guó)際數(shù)據(jù)中心1997年年底的財(cái)政統(tǒng)計(jì)，惠普已成為世界第三大PC生產(chǎn)廠家。產(chǎn)品的貢獻(xiàn)進(jìn)一步促進(jìn)了這一發(fā)展。去年，惠普不斷推出新型產(chǎn)品，為此榮獲了 50余項(xiàng)大獎(jiǎng)。我們一直在如下三個(gè)方面不斷努力的：第一，可操作性。我們認(rèn)為可以幫助客戶將PC機(jī)的總生存周期成本降低50%。請(qǐng)注意，我指的是總生存周期成本，而不僅僅是售價(jià)。我們開(kāi)發(fā)出了功能強(qiáng)大的管理套件，叫TopTools。它可使IT管理人員收集350項(xiàng)有關(guān)PC機(jī)的信息，并可遠(yuǎn)程管理PC機(jī)。這一信息供給惠普OpenView的臺(tái)式管理器，將最具綜合性的臺(tái)式管理解決方案推向市場(chǎng)。最近，中國(guó)政府在示范性工程中使用了惠普的PC 機(jī)，NetServer以及臺(tái)式管理系統(tǒng)， 該項(xiàng)目旨在將四川省經(jīng)濟(jì)信息系統(tǒng)與國(guó)家倌息中心連接起來(lái)。第二，可用性。我們與微軟公司合作提高NT服務(wù)器的可用性。我們?cè)跇I(yè)內(nèi)率先經(jīng)銷微軟的群集服務(wù)器，該服務(wù)器可為兩個(gè)計(jì)算節(jié)點(diǎn)提供共享存儲(chǔ)器。如一個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)出現(xiàn)故障，服務(wù)器可重新啟動(dòng)另一個(gè)節(jié)點(diǎn)的應(yīng)用程序。
