HP is reportedly getting ready to trade in its more sophisticated Oracle Siebel customer relationship management (CRM) system for a subscription to 35,000 or 40,000 seats worth of Salesforce.com’s simpler high-flying CRM cloud widgetry, a major victory for salesforce. At least that’s what Global Equities Research analyst Trip Crowdry is telling people citing industry contacts [...]
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Another day, another statement out of Oracle meant to embarrass HP’s brand new CEO. Late Wednesday, three days into the SAP trial, Oracle came out and said, “Hewlett-Packard has refused to accept service of a subpoena requiring Mr. Apotheker to testify about his role in SAP’s illegal conduct. Mr. Apotheker started work for HP on [...]
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So how did ousted SAP CEO Léo Apotheker manage to persuade the HP board that he was their man against a field that included EMC’s Pat Gelsinger, Apple’s Tim Cook (before Steve Jobs bought his loyalty back), Juniper Networks’ Kevin Johnson, Cisco’s Inder Sidha and Microsoft’s Stephen Elop (who went to Nokia as CEO instead)? [...]
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Gamesmanship hit a new level late Thursday when HP announced that it had hired former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker as its new CEO and tapped former Oracle president and COO Ray Lane as its non-executive chairman, splitting jobs that its former CEO had. Well, if Oracle can hire ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd with his [...]
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HP confirmed Monday morning that it means to buy ArcSight, the 10-year-old anti-hacking house, for $43.50 a share or around $1.5 billion all told, a 24% premium for a company that it reputedly wanted to buy for $800 million a couple of years ago before it went public. Since the unconfirmed report in the Wall [...]
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HP’s Russian headquarters in Moscow were tossed Wednesday by the investigative arm of the Prosecutor General’s Office at the request of German authorities according to reports by both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. It appears from the story the Journal has managed to piece together that German prosecutors in Dresden are investigating whether HP [...]
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Cisco ripped off HP’s epaulets and broke its sword over its knee last Friday. It’s not going to renew HP’s long-time systems integrator contract when it expires on April 30. That means HP won’t be a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partner anymore because Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance partners get [...]
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Claiming to have struck the tightest, most deeply integrated relationship ever seen in the industry – apparently the next best thing to one of them acquiring the other – HP and Microsoft said Wednesday that together they’re going to pour $250 million over the next three years into a new cloud computing venture. Microsoft CEO [...]
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HP is close to moving its printer unit into its PC unit according to an unconfirmed, unattributed piece in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, which would mean redoing what CEO Mark Hurd undid when he got there to shake the Carly dust off the company. The reorg reportedly just needs Hurd’s imprimatur. The move would [...]
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Blades are passé; Trays are in HP Wednesday took the wraps off the first new server family it’s created since the BladeSystem C-class was invented and ran away with the market. The line is call ExSO, short for Extreme Scale-Out, and it’s purpose-built for global low-margin/maximum transaction volume cloud, Web 2.0 and HPC sites looking [...]
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