$1 Billion in Worldwide Customer Deals Fuels HP Public Sector Momentum

Business Wire, Sept 28, 2004

--University of Wisconsin - Stout: Founded in 1891, Wisconsin-Stout offers its 8,000 students an outstanding curriculum and facilities, and a faculty with a record of concerned service to students. The challenge was to maximize the infrastructure so that users had similar systems and support while providing optimal access in order to achieve an egalitarian community for both faculty and students. This would help to further enhance the student learning experience. The solution: 2300 EVA nc6000 notebooks, HP Financial Services and HP CarePAQ. Now, incoming freshmen are equipped with notebooks including integrated wireless multi ports. University of Wisconsin-Stout says, "HP's mobile technology is providing the tools our university needed to help transform the teaching/learning experience -- taking the best of what we did before and looking at new opportunities to support and enhance the learning experience. We've been able to expand the concept of extending the classroom, increase and improve feedback critical to students' success and minimize frustration -- by creating an infrastructure based on wireless connectivity."

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