HP’s Linux Sales Reach $2.5 Billion in 2003

Hewlett-Packard said its revenue from the open-source operating system and connected products and services hit record levels in 2003, earning the Palo Alto, California-based company US$2.5 billion, an increase of about a half-billion dollars from last year.IDC analyst Jean Bozman told LinuxInsider that HP, which led the Linux server sector with 28.1 percent share of a $743 million market in the third quarter of 2003, is succeeding at making money from other products and services that go along with Linux servers.