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Hewlett-Packard Chairman, President and CEO Lewis Platt, 57, right, and Ned Barnholt, 56, who was named chief executive of the new measurement company, are shown in Platt's office at their corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, March 2, 1999. HP split itself into two separate publicly-held corporations, which will include computer and imaging businesses, while the second will include its testing and measuring, components, chemical analysis and medical segments. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)