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I think this is a way to consolidate the whole Autonomy mess they started when they overpaid for and tried to integrate the company.

It seems HP, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Box, etc. are all trying to build the future of business computing. Good luck with that!

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We're trying to integrate with some of the Autonomy stuff at the moment, talking to HP you realize they know about as much as we do about the products - I assume they got the products, but forgot to hire the developers who created them?

Wasn't it over $1 billion for Autonomy?

More like $11 billion :)

Yeah wow I was an order of magnitude off... I can't wrap my head around how this is good business but I'm sure someone knows what they're doing.

They ended up writing off 9 billion or so of that purchase.

It wasn't good business. HP are suing for fraud. However no they did not know what they were doing. Probably still don't.

I just heard a Podcast from HP and Autonomy's chief customer guy hyping NPS score. I guess they never asked you. :-)

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