The Top 10 Tech Companies in the 2008 Fortune 500

Fortune Magazine has announced the Top 10 Tech Companies in the Fortune 500 for 2008. Topping the list is Hewlett-Packard ($104.3 billion), followed by IBM ($98.8 billion), Dell ($61.1 billion), Microsoft ($51.1 billion), Intel ($38.3 billion), Motorola ($36.6 billion), Cisco Systems ($34.9 billion), Apple ($24.0 billion), Electronic Data Systems ($22.1 billion) and Oracle ($17.9 billion). When the list is sorted by profit, Microsoft comes out on top with Microsoft ($14.1 billion), followed by IBM ($10.4 billion), Cisco Systems ($7.3 billion), Hewlett-Packard ($7.3 billion), Intel ($7.0 billion), Oracle ($4.3 billion), Google ($4.2 billion), Apple ($3.5 billion), Qualcomm ($3.3 billion) and Dell ($2.9 billion).