Uk's most succesful software firm sold to HP

[Doggy Styles]

What's wrong with "`Yahoo could have bought Google when it was offered"

Nothing.

"could of" in the original post does not exist in correct English.

[sasguru]

Nothing.

"could of" does not exist in correct English.

Of course it doesn't.
Doodab and Shimano seem to think so though.

[shaunbhoy]

Nothing.

"could of" in the original post does not exist in correct English.

WDSS

Bizarre as it may seem, on this occasion sasguru was correct in highlighting this error. Every dog has its day I suppose.

[doodab]

What's wrong with "`Yahoo could have bought Google when it was offered"

Nothing, but in the wider context of AtW's musings it's an anomaly.

[sasguru]

Nothing, but in the wider context of AtW's musings it's an anomaly.

Thanks. In the context of this thread your musings have contributed exactly ZILCH.

[Shimano105]

Of course it doesn't.
Doodab and Shimano seem to think so though.

I know if you have to explain it then it ain't funny but... you really are a humourless cretin aren't you?

[sasguru]

I know if you have to explain it then it ain't funny but... you really are a humourless cretin aren't you?

Nice try but no cigar

[OwlHoot]

Oracle is buying HP

Now that is truley eek!

It would be like a canary gulping down a cat surely.

[doodab]

Thanks. In the context of this thread your musings have contributed exactly ZILCH.

And your contribution has been to start a thread expressing surprise and then call everyone else thick. CUK at it's finest

[doodab]

And here is a proper contribution.

What HP are really good at is hardware, servers, storage, printers and so on, and although the consumer space is competitive and low margin they have far more chance of upping their game and taking a chunk out of Apple than they do of competing seriously with IBM, Oracle and MS in the enterprise software world. They have ignored the software side for too long and will have a job buying enough good companies to compete seriously because they have left it so late. How do they plan to offer a full stack single vendor solution for anything when HP-UX only runs on Itanium and they don't have an RDBMS?

The logical play for HP to make, if they wanted to expand their software business, was to buy BMC Software. Autonomy doesn't seem to fit anywhere within the rest of their organization and there is zero synergy. What will come next? Red Hat? SAP? PTC? Autodesk? Could be anything and probably will be.