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According to Bloomberg, HP to buy European infrastructure software company autonomy as a $ 10 billion. This price will make the acquisition of one of the largest HP deals to date.
Autonomy enterprise software supports Pan enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information management, eDiscovery end-to-end records management, archiving, business process management, Web content management, Web optimization, management, and video and audio analysis of the rich media. The company's software allows businesses to provide insight and structure for electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, Web pages, voice, or video.
Autonomy, which trades on the London Stock Exchange, just bought assets with Iron Mountain for $ 380 million.
Microsoft and Oracle also reportedly bidding for autonomy last year. The company also rumored valuation list of United States.
HP has made a number of corporate acquisitions in the past year, spending $ 2.35 billion at 3PAR last year and buying ArcSight for $ 1.5 billion.
Bloomberg also reported that HP will announce spinoff your business personal computers.
Update: HP has just confirmed that it is in "conversations with autonomy in respect of a possible offer for the company.
HP also announced that it is exploring "strategic alternatives" for their personal systems group, including "a complete or partial detachment of the PWG from HP through a spin-off, or other transactions."
Update 2: HP confirmed that he will be received autonomy for £ 25.50 ($ 42.11) per share in cash.
Leo Apotheker, HP'S President and CEO of HP said in a statement:
"Autonomy is an opportunity to accelerate our strategic vision to lead strongly and favorably to large and growing space ...Together with the autonomy we plan to reinvent how structured and unstructured data is processed, analyzed, optimized, automated and secure. Autonomy has an attractive business model, including a strong cloud based solution set, which is consistent with HP's efforts to improve our portfolio mix. We believe that bold actions directly position of HP's software and information to create an information platform for the next generation and thus create substantial value for our akcionerovAvtonomiâ is highly profitable and globally respected software companies with a well regarded and talented, dedicated employees. We look forward to partnering with companies who share our commitment to address customer problems by creating smart, innovative products and solutions. "
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