What is the focus of HPs enterprise software business and what direction will you take moving forward?
Blackmore: Within the Enterprise Group we have four business units: business-critical solutions, the server group, enterprise storage — which is the open SAN and the RAID arrays — and software. The combination of those four businesses is about $16.5 billion and our R&D budget is slightly less than $1.8 billion. The six-month planning horizon tends to be “How do we meet our financial plan?” but also “How do we make sure the road map and development [follow] through?” The three-year planning horizon, where Shane [Robison is very] involved, is looking a bit longer. Shane [works] across the company so it’s very valuable to me [to know] are we linking into this, that, and the other? Our industry is developing very fast, and when you’re running a business you’re focused on hitting numbers, not necessarily on where the next disruptive technology is coming [from]. Robison: We think about the enterprise business strategy as it impacts multiple business groups. We’ve got these two huge market
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