The Hewlett-Packard Company commonly known as HP, is the world's largest information technology corporation (by revenue) and is known worldwide for its printers, personal computers and high end servers.

HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006 compared to US$91.4 billion for IBM, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales.

HP is the No. 1 ranking company in worldwide personal computer shipments, surpassing rival Dell, market research firms Gartner and IDC reported in October 2006; the gap between HP and Dell widened substantially at the end of 2006, with HP taking a near 3.5% market share lead.

The company released an outlook for FY07 of between $103 and $103.2 billion during its Q3 earnings results. This would make HP the world's first IT company to cross the $100 billion revenue mark.

Programming Labs Worked on the development of regression tests for MPE XL and later PANDORA. A broad range of HP3000 tools, including Process Handling, Dynamic Loading, Traps, Interprocess Communications, Resource Management, Privileged Mode, and mixed mode programming (Compatibility Mode <---> Native Mode). Extensive use of system intrinsics was made. All tests were implemented on the HP3000 PA-RISC machine.