How HP Uses Debian

Development Platform
Hardware Enablement
Most Itanium 2 systems ran Debian as their first OS boot!
Early hardware shipments.
Carrier-grade servers.
Blade servers.
Benchmarks - Itanium 2 SPECfp2000
HP Enablement Kit for Linux on Itanium Systems.
iPAQ distributions are Debian derived.
familiar - minimal Linux environment
intimate - full Debian for iPAQ
Infrastructure

HP's relationship with Debian helps HP stay "connected" with the Free Software community.