[Info-vax] HPE buys Cray

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/21/2019 4:21 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <qbv9vl$177a$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> On 5/20/2019 5:15 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/2019 10:50 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>>>> Well, Cray must still have some smarts and/or value add left.
>>>>
>>>> Kerry, you're talking about HP.  Remember the British company they spend
>>>> something like 9 billion on?
>>>
>>> HP bought British Leyland?
>>
>> I think he is referring to Autonomy.
>>
>> And they paid 10/12 B$ for it.
>>
>> The 9B$ was the amount they wrote off a year after the acquisition.
> 
> IIRC, 9B$ was what Compaq paid for DEC.

Yes.

And that acquisition probably had a lot more potential.

Compaq just did not know what to do with it.

Arne