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Their mistake was buying this cloud company, Attunity, for $11 billion, and then realizing the company had completely defrauded them with fraudulent accounting. They had to do a 100% write-off.

I think you mean Autonomy?

Like many, HP didn't know what openstack is for (on-premise or public cloud)

Can you explain what you mean? What is OpenStack for?

Probably, the comment meant that OpenStack works best only in specific scenarios, like Private Cloud for Enterprises with strict compliance and regulatory requirements. Rackspace seems to be trying to do more in this area.

vthallam cleared up what I meant, apologies

Yes. Very.

I know of 2 banks that bought an OpenStack private cloud solution from HP and even though they were over a year apart HP could not get it working for either one and had to change at least the hypervisor to VMware