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Company Research Hewlett Packard On September 4, 2001, Hewlett-Packard Company and Compaq Computer Corporation announced a definitive merger agreement to create an $87 billion global technology leader. The new HP will offer the industry's most complete set of IT products and services for both businesses and consumers, with a commitment to serving customers with open systems and architectures. The combined company will have #1 worldwide revenue positions in servers, access devices (PCs and Handhelds), and imaging and printing, as well as leading revenue positions in IT services, storage, and management software. Future earnings potential -Involved in Quantum computing project with MIT expected to replace silicon-based engineering of computer chips within the next 25 years. Quantum information systems, including quantum computers and molecular electronics, represent a fundamentally new approach to processing information. Within the next 10 years, molecular electronics is expected to begin to become available as a replacement for silicon-based computing technologies. Further down the road, quantum computers are expected to provide the basis for theoretically perfectly secure communications, advanced searching techniques and efficiently simulating quantum mechanical systems. Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all. HP solutions, services, computing, quantum, company, revenue, products, global, computer, technology, storage, servers, provider, offer, net, lower, leading, imaging, fell, expected, enterprise, computers, compaq, workstations, within, technologies, systems, software, silicon-based, revenues, results, reflect, recommend, positions, pc, next, new, networking, months, molecular, mil, markets, manufactures, information, income, including, inc, hp, hardware, handhelds