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CEO Hurd is leading the company's battle against his old employer, NCR

It was an awkward situation for Mark V. Hurd. Last summer, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ ) began quietly promoting Neoview, a data-mining technology aimed at big corporations that's key to its growth plan. But Hurd, 15 months into his tenure as HP's chief executive, couldn't get out and sell Neoview like the company's other products.

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Starting on Apr. 24, though, HP will be going all out to formally launch Neoview. The system, which costs from $600,000 to over $15 million, depending on the size of the setup, consists of a combination of HP servers, storage machines, and software that helps companies retrieve and organize huge chunks of data.

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