The company claimed it is starting to see higher returns from open source contracts.
Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard's Linux vice-president, yesterday slammed the open source community's complex licensing schemes, suggesting that there are too many open source licences for developers to manage.
HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open source management tools it made available to the community last week.
Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail's e-mail software, the latest move by the longtime Microsoft ally to also woo open-source players.
Users of DSpace, the open source archiving tool, will receive help and support via a not-for-profit organisation set up by the creators of the tool, MIT and Hewlett-Packard.
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Strategic sales of more expensive servers indicates the "Band-Aid approach" of recent years is waning, analyst says.
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