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Oracle should buy HP and rename itself HP

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after HP completes autonomy cleanup, Oracle/SAP should pick it up. I think it makes more sense for Oracle, from a branding standpoint.

(disclaimer: I was at Oracle doing M&A. these views are entirely mine and not representative of my past employers or knowledge. I do not directly own HP, ORCL or SAP stocks. I may own one or more of HP, ORCL, SAP through mutual funds in my retirement account)

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Uhh pretty sure owning it through your retirement plan is still illegal. Last a checked even blinded managed trading is not allowed. Of course this could be dependent on your firm.

Not sure I completely understand why Oracle would want to be in the Hardware business, then again Google joined it via Motorola.

Isn't Oracle already in the Hardware business, via the Sun purchase? http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers/overview/index.htm...

forgot about that...

i think Dave - see http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/would-oracle-actually-buy-... - and Eric - see http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/20/could-hp-r... - have contemplated on the viability of such a deal.

I wanted to get your thoughts on Oracle, after the potential acquisition, changing its name to HP.

Just regarding the re-naming, not sure if that will happen. From what I hear Ellison is a serious ego maniac. I would doubt that he'd think to change his companies name. Then again I'm not even close to a branding expert.

and one more thing to look at, revenue by lines of business http://www.trefis.com/company?hm=HPQ.trefis#

interesting, I wouldn't have expected that much from services.

Could you explain your logic?

do you think HP is a better brand than Oracle?

After the last two years, possibly (probably?) not - but surely that brand value is incredibly contextually relevant anyway. For consumer electronics, I probably wouldn't buy Oracle's tablet the Elisson-3000, but if I were building a server farm I'd be more inclined to go with Oracle over HP given the apparent management issues, the current Autonomy debacle, and their flip-flopping in the consumer PC space.

Irrespective of that, presumably an acquisition decision has more to it than , "HP is a better brand so we should buy HP" (this is not rhetorical)?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, especially given your background, I'm just genuinely interested as to your reasons.

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