"We have more than 7000 support professionals throughout the world that are trained on open source to provide support services - whether it is in planning, installation, integration, post sales support, lifecycle management - we can take all those pieces and make them work."

HP has this week introduced what it claims to be "industry first" offerings of hardware, software, and services to simplify the integration of open source and commercial software. (See story: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;652795525;fp;16;fpid;0)