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justincormack on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packa...

Maybe buying (uk based) Autonomy is a trial run? We will see with Microsoft and Skype (Estonia). I cant think of any big examples, though there was ICL Fujitsu (uk Japan), Europe does not have a lot of large software companies.

nikcub on Aug 20, 2011 [–]

I doubt it was a trial. HP only have a billion dollars in cash left now, and their stock has tanked to a market cap lower than SAP's.

I think they found out that SAP was too big and too expensive and had no need for HP so went with Autonomy as a second choice

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