HP buys British services company Synstar
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Hewlett-Packard has acquired the business of British computing services company Synstar for $293 million.
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Hewlett-PackardÂ has agreed to buy Web application security specialist SPI Dynamics, just two weeks afterÂ IBM announced plans to buy SPI's rival Watchfire.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire IT services company Knightsbridge Solutions Holding for an undisclosed sum. Knightsbridge helps to design IT architectures for managing large volumes of data. It specializes in helping clients to deploy technologies for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration. The company has 700 employees. Based in Chicago, it has offices in London and throughout the U.S. HP expects to close the deal in about 30 days subject to closing conditions. Knightsbridge will become part of its HP Services organization. HP recentlyÂ completed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury Interactive. OtherÂ recent HP acquisitions include OuterBay, which makes database archiving software.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.   agreed on Tuesday to buy Mercury Interactive Corp.   for about $4.5 billion in stock, or $52 per share, in a bid to  expand the computer maker's business software operations.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Commission has cleared Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to buy U.K. IT services provider Synstar PLC, the Commission announced on Friday.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard plans to buy datacenter automation software vendor Opsware for about $1.6 billion. HP said Monday that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Opsware in a cash tender deal that values the company at $14.25 per share. Opsware's stock was $10.28 at the close of Friday's trading. Once the deal closes, HP plans to combine the Opsware software with its own enterprise IT management software, as the new acquisition becomes part of HP's software business. "The acquisition of Opsware is intended to enable HP Software to help our customers resolve one of their critical pain points: controlling the increasing complexity and cost of managing the datacenter," Thomas Hogan, senior vice president of software at HP, said in a news release. HP has been steadily expanding its business technology optimization portfolio over the last couple of years through acquisitions, including the purchases ofÂ Mercury InteractiveÂ andÂ Peregrine Systems. After HP has closed the acquisition, the vendor expects to appoint Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz as head of its business technology optimization organization, reporting to Hogan. Subject to regulatory approval, HP hopes to close the purchase before the end of October. Opsware System software automates data center operations including provisioning, configuration, and deployment. Â
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Hewlett-Packard said it will buy Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash to bulk up HPâs data-center software line.
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Boston Communications Group Inc. of Bedford, a major US provider of prepaid wireless services, yesterday said it has agreed to be purchased by an Indian company for $65 million.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today unveiled three facilities in Cupertino, Calif., Singapore and Bangalore, India, as part of a $500 million investment to deliver world-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enterprise customers.
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Chinese-American businessman John Hui has bought computer maker Packard Bell, the third-biggest manufacturer of PCs in Europe, Packard Bell announced.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Microsoft Corp. will enter into a new enterprise software agreement to be detailed Wednesday. The news will be announced at a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon that will feature Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, and Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. No further details about the nature of the agreement were revealed. HP and Microsoft have had a close relationship over the past two decades, described as a "Frontline Partnership" on the HP Web site. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of the new Office 2007 suite of business software applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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By Anonymous  HP has signed an agreement to acquire Bristol Technology, Inc. to enhance HP Software's position in business technology optimization (BTO).
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Hewlett-Packard plans to acquire business transactions monitoring software vendor Bristol Technology.
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The rapidly growing software company gets the price it wants from HP.
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By Chuvala, Bob  Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Bristol Technology Inc. in Danbury for an undisclosed amount.
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Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell  has agreed to buy Novar Plc, a British industrial holding  company, for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion), a source  familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has set up an SOA (service-oriented architecture) center in Bangalore, India, which will be one of five SOA centers run by HP worldwide. The Bangalore center will focus on building SOA competency within HP, delivering SOA services to HPâs customers and also host customers who want to run proof-of-concepts for their SOA implementations, said Shrinivas Gorur, head of the center, on Friday. The center is part of HPâs proposed US$500 million investment in SOA for enterprise customers, Gorur said. He did not disclose how much HP invested in the Bangalore center. HP, of Palo Alto, California, also has SOA centers in Sophia Antipolis, France, and Tokyo, with two more planned in Singapore and Cupertino, California, by January, Gorur said. With about 125 staff, the Bangalore center will work closely with HPâs 6,500 staff involved in delivering SOA to customers worldwide, Gorur added. IBM Corp. last month set up an SOA Solutions Center in Pune in western India, focused on developing reusable SOA services for a variety of customers. HP's Bangalore center will focus on reusability at the design level rather than of specific code, because of potential intellectual property issues, Gorur said.