ISS Recommends EDS Stockholders Vote for Merger Agreement with Hewlett-Packard

PLANO, Texas – EDS today announced that ISS Governance Services (ISS) has published its report recommending that EDS stockholders vote FOR the proposal to approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger under which EDS would be acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company. The company’s special stockholders meeting regarding the vote is scheduled for July 31, 2008.

ISS, a unit of RiskMetrics Group, is a leading independent proxy advisory firm whose voting analyses are relied upon by hundreds of institutional investment funds, mutual funds and fiduciaries.