Goosed by Oracle – which has refused to port any more of its software to the Itanium chip signally used by HP – HP Tuesday announced an oddly named Odyssey Project that’s supposed to unify Unix and x86 server architectures. Oracle claims Itanium has reached the end of its life – although Intel and HP [...]
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After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server. HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. This new [...]
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The stock market in New York was closed all of five minutes Thursday when HP’s board announced that it had striped Léo Apotheker of his epaulets and swagger stick and named Meg Whitman president and chief executive officer. In an unexpected move, Ray Lane, who put Whitman on the HP board in January, was named [...]
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Apparently HP doesn’t trust its own CEO to speak in public anymore. Not after his disastrous stock-crippling performance August 18 when he announced that HP would spin off its $41 billion PC unit, kill its newborn webOS devices and buy an unknown British software company for most of the money it has in the bank [...]
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Hewlett-Packard is moving to spin off the PC unit it acquired when the ill-fated Carly Fiorina bought Compaq and is buying Autonomy, Britain’s second-largest software house, for $42.11 (£25.50) a share, roughly $10.24 billion cash, a 64% premium. It’s a hysterically high price that will take most of HP’s bank balance. The news, which Bloomberg [...]
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HP took its white dancing gloves off the other day, bared its claws, hissed and spit venom in Cisco’s face from the podium at Interop. Having left its party manners at home it told everybody who would listen that Cisco is the master of complexity, high prices and that dirtiest word of all, lock-in. “Single-vendor, [...]
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Tom Hogan, the executive vice-president of HP’s $57 billion enterprise business sales and marketing, presumably one of the key guys HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker was hoping would stick around, quit Monday to “pursue other interests.” He’s the first member of HP’s top echelon to bolt since the new administration took over in November. Léo’s [...]
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HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker, four and a half months on the job, brought a net along to the unveiling of his grand strategy for the company Monday in case it sunk like a lead balloon taking HP’s share price to 40 bucks. He raised the company’s quarterly dividend for the first time in 13 [...]
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If ever a board screamed to be overhauled, it’s been HP’s. The move finally came Thursday after the stock market closed only to be stepped on by Google’s news that it was moving one of its young founders into the CEO’s chair. According to HP’s non-executive chairman Ray Lane four directors when asked volunteered to [...]
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison got up on stage late Thursday in a rare, practically giddy mood to say that he had found a softer, more vulnerable target than IBM – which he’s been targeting since he got his hands on Sun – and that he means to take market share from Hewlett-Packard, a once dearly [...]
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