In the newly discovered Software Advice Blog - An intriguing article: HP Mergers and Acquisitions, Who's Next? I have linked with HP for many years while I was in the enterprise. For a number of years we visited HP Labs yearly to see what was happening in their innovation space. They also visited out innovation centers. I was disappointed in recent years when their Labs took less interest in pushing good ideas.
This article explores the acquisition space in interesting ways. Including a visual view of the acquisitions that HP has done historically. That reminded me of several interesting connections with those events.
The article then goes through a number of context areas. I agree with many of them, in particular BI and Imaging, where I saw early evidence of their work at HP Labs. Bringing up SAP as a merger was interesting though I think that there are many barriers including size and corporate culture. My own former enterprise now works with both companies and I think there would be some loud opinions from that direction.
The article ends with a survey. I will follow with a post to the results. There are also a number of largely thoughtful comments on the post which suggest other targets and strategies. I agree with many of the suggestions. Overall if you have been involved with HP this is an excellent and thought provoking piece.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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