HP Granada
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Customers usually tend to take two different choices when buying new computer products. One choice would be to buy an application or software, for storage, server use, desktop utilities etc. Another would be to buy hardware related products, from an outside supplier for a more integrated approach.
"We had a really good partnership with HP on products, service and support, starting with their servers. We looked at that partnership, and the type of response we'd received, and we knew that by purchasing disk arrays from HP we would get an end-to-end solution, a one-stop shop to get all the support we needed."
(http://www.snwonline.com/behind/hp_compaq_merger_06-24-02.asp?article_id=134)
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