HP Software

HP Software is the new brand name of software packages from Hewlett Packard, following the acquisition of Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion USD in July 2006. [cite news | date=2006-07-26 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/technology/26hewlett.html?ref=business | title=H.P. to Pay $4.5 Billion to Acquire Mercury | work=The New York Times | accessdate=2008-01-23] The name change affects all HP "OpenView" and Mercury Interactive "Mercury" software, with the pre-existing products being renamed (usually by dropping the "OpenView" or "Mercury" prefix) to fit this new standard.

HP purchased four further software companies, Opsware, SPI Dynamics, Bristol Technology, and Peregrine, spending $1.6 billion USD on Opsware, a company that offers products and services for provisioning and configuring servers and network infrastructure. Tom Hogan, senior vice president of HP Software, said "We are looking to grow more in the software business," adding that quick growth "can't all be organic growth." The company is "committed to massively elevating the strategic relevance of HP software", Hogan said. " [Software is] the fastest-growing and most profitable line of business within HP... and from a margin basis, the most profitable." [cite news | date=2007-11-29 | url=http://www.news.com/No-slowdown-in-HPs-software-expansion-quest/2100-1014_3-6220699.html | title=No slowdown in HP's software expansion quest | work=news.com | accessdate=2008-01-23]

ee also

*HP Technology Solutions Group
*HP Application Security Center

References

External links

* [http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/software.html HP Software]
* [https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_home.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1_4011_100__ HP's Business Technology Optimization (BTO) Software website]