HP posted the new product details on its Web site in advance of a conference call with customers, analysts and the press.
"Now, we're eager to prove we can seize the moment and lead the change in our industry. Most important, we're eager to demonstrate that our passion for customers is stronger than ever," Carly Fiorina, HP's new CEO, and Michael Capellas, the company's new president, said in the letter. "We would like to thank you for standing by us through this important journey. We do not take your loyalty for granted. We look forward to proving ourselves."
The new details are contained in a series of fact sheets about HP's new business groups. Some of the details have already been revealed by the company, but others, concerning HP's use of products and services from Compaq Computer, have not.
For example, HP will become the company's overall brand name and will be used for all products and services, the company has said. Its four main product groups will be the Enterprise Systems Group, the Imaging and Printing Group, the HP Services group and the Personal Systems Group.
But the fact sheets reveal several exceptions to this rule regarding PCs, servers, handheld devices and even operating systems.
The company's new Personal Systems Group, run by HP's Duane Zitzner, will sell commercial PCs under the Compaq brand. This exception was widely expected but until now had not been confirmed by the company.
Furthermore, as previously reported, the company will keep both HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario consumer desktop PC lines. It will also keep both consumer notebook lines, which carry the same brand names.
"Since demand for both the HP and Compaq brand of consumer PCs is strong, HP will continue to offer both product lines," the site states.
HP could not immediately be reached for comment.
While it will keep only the Compaq brand for commercial PCs and notebooks, HP has not yet said if it will continue to use Compaq's Evo sub-brand, as is widely expected by many resellers.
The new HP will also do away with Compaq workstations. The company will instead offer HP workstations using Intel and HP's own PA RISC processors.
Compaq's popular iPaq PDA will also carry over, but with a new name. The device will be called the HP iPaq Pocket PC.
Home-networking equipment, including wireless networks and related hardware, will carry the HP brand.
As for the new company's Enterprise Systems Group, it will maintain Compaq's ProLiant server brand. The group "is dedicated to delivering on the ProLiant roadmap and to working with its partners to create industry-defining technologies based on unifying open standards," the site states.
The group will also continue to offer high-end server technologies from Compaq, such as its Compaq NonStop brand of servers as well as the company's Tru64 Unix and OpenVMS operating systems.
In addition, HP will continue porting the two operating systems to Intel's Itanium architecture under plans announced after Compaq abandoned future development of the Alpha processor last June.
Additional details about HP's plans for its business groups are expected during the conference call at 10:30 a.m. PDT.
