Friday, September 30, 2011

thinking-the-unthinkable-is-oracle-considering-buying-hp?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/08/22/thinking-the-unthinkable-is-oracle-considering-buying-hp/

"A hostile Oracle bid for HP would pit Larry and his sidekick Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP, against HP CEO – and former SAP co-CEO – Leo Apotheker, along with HP Chairman Ray Lane, who himself was once the #2 man at Oracle, and left when it became clear that Ellison had no plans to step down from the top job. Meanwhile, HP is furious with Oracle from its announcement earlier this year that it will no longer develop software for the Itanium server processor that HP had developed with Intel. These two companies do not like each other, and it is hard to imagine they could work out friendly terms. This is a smack down I'd pay money to see."

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