[Info-vax] IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<580d7f96-5547-413e-bf15-e9c914572b02 at t11g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
 Keith Cayemberg <keith.cayemberg at arcor.de> wrote:

> IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up
> http://tinyurl.com/6docx5r

"Judging from the lack of progress and litigation, it doesn¹t appear 
that Oracle and HP under former CEO Leo Apotheker were talking much, 
said Olaf Leonhardt, a systems administrator at Manor AG, a Swiss 
department store that runs internal applications on Oracle and OpenVMS."

Knock me down with a feather.  I shop at Manor regularly but had no idea 
they ran VMS.

"HP also has a lot of other big problems on its plate, namely whether or 
not to spin out its PC business, complete its Autonomy acquisition and 
generally re-establish trust with its customers after a rocky period 
under Apotheker."

The takeover of Autonomy has already gone through:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/hp_buys_autonomy/

"4th October 2011 09:12 GMT

HP has finally concluded the $10.24bn acquisition of Cambridge-based 
enterprise search and BI software firm Autonomy.

The £25.50-per-share offer was given the green light by 87 per cent of 
Autonomy's shareholders last night - a whopping 79 per cent premium on 
the stock price on 18 August when HP first lodged the bid."

-- 
Paul Sture