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This year we strengthened our position by acquiring the networking business unit of a company called Symantec. This provided HP OpenView with new capabilities for software distribution, inventory, configuration, trouble-shooting, licensing for desktop systems as well as real-time server management for Windows NT. This allows us to offer a single-vendor management solution that combines hardware, software management and services. A third investment last year was aimed at helping customers manage NT-based systems.
今年，我們通過收購一家名為Symantec公司的網絡部門，進而加強了我們的地位。這為惠普OpenView提供了新的功能，如軟件分配、庫存、配置、查找故障、注冊桌面系統，以及Windows NT的實時服務器管理。這可使我們提供單一廠商管理解決方案，將硬件管理、軟件管理和服務結合起來。去年第三筆投資是幫助客戶管理基于NT的系統。
We evaluated a variety of different approaches to this challenge. A small company called NewView had the best product available, something called ManageX, and we acquired that company late last year. We think ManageX is the best for a couple of reasons. First, it's very scalable — able to handle everything from the workgroup to a full enterprise. We think that's very important, because we see many customers starting out by deploying NT in a workgroup area, and then more broadly across their enterprise. So it's critical to have a tool that can grow. Second, ManageX is based on all of Microsoft's technologies. That's really critical if you want to have a leading product in the NT environment. Most of OpenView's competitors today are trying to take software that was developed for managing mainframes or Unix and then retrofitting it to NT. And that's no trivial task.
我們評估了解決這一問題的各類方式。當時，有一家叫NewView的小公司擁有名為ManageX的最佳產品，去年下半年我們收購了該公司。我們認為ManageX極具優勢的原因如下：第一，它具有極強的可擴展性——可處理從工作組到整個企業的任何事項。我們認為這一點非常重要，因為我們看到許多客戶初期在工作組用的是NT，然后逐漸在企業內擴大。所以，最關鍵的是真有可發展的工具。第二， ManageX是基于微軟的技術。 如果你想在NT環境擁有領先的產品，這一點甚為重要。目前，OpenView的大多數競爭者均力圖獲取可用于管理主機或UNIX的軟件然后將其改型，以便更加適應NT。而這項工作極為繁雜。
