How is this approach different from the way HPs peer companies have tackled the R&D challenge?
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee and Rich Rashid up at Microsoft (MSFT) are actually very good friends, and we do a lot of joint things together, so we kind of compare philosophies. Their philosophy is a little different from ours; their researchers tend to be more of a traditional environment where it’s bottoms up and not at all constrained by certain themes. Intel (INTC), their research is more like ours; it’s more directed based on where they’re trying to take their company. IBM (IBM), most of their research has been going on for a long, long time, and a huge piece of it goes into the microelectronics business, which is all about fabs and all of that. Based on my recent interactions with them, they’re not too far off what we’re doing in terms of looking at different ways to do research. Then you look at the newer groups like stuff that’s going on at Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG), and the difference there is, the context is so narrowly defined. They’re going to work in search-based w
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