Technology
HP hopes to get hotter
The $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive is the biggest deal HP has made since it bought Compaq in 2002, and pitches it squarely against EMC, CA and IBM.
01 February 2007
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has become the sixth largest software company in the world. It just bought Mercury Interactive, which also plays in the IT management space. The merged companies prefer to call it business technology optimisation (BTO), and describe it as an area of software and services aimed at helping CIOs to improve the business outcomes of IT investments by automating critical IT functions across strategy, applications and operations.
“The breadth and depth of HP Software's existing portfolio, combined with Mercury's proven products, equals the industry's strongest BTO offering,” says Lenore Kerrigan, Mercury's alliance director for sub-Saharan Africa.
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