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by arethuza 5414 days ago
Sounds like they might have been acquired for their sales team rather than their technology!
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That is quite likely. They have a huge range of contacts amongst government, educational, financial and just about every other large organisation you can think of. If you wanted to get into retailing software to large business, they would be the people to talk to.
Given the HP CEO was at SAP he is probably wants to compete with Oracle.