Hints and tips:
...In a complex deal, a shell company sponsored by HPS Investment Partners intends to merge with two of Wall Street biggest recent success stories....
...More important, perhaps, is why she might leave HP Enterprise....
...A large part of its value is based on an 80 per cent stake, worth some $27bn, in virtualisation software company VMware....
...It comes as HP is preparing for a November split that will sever its own PC and printing businesses from the rest of the group....
...In another coincidence, my Lex colleague, Leslie Hook, wrote a piece on software LBOs in early October inspired by the Tibco deal....
...A spokesperson for Mr Lynch said: “This breathless ranting from HP is the sort of personal smear we’ve come to expect. As the emotional outbursts go up, the access to facts seems to go down.”...
...Dell is spending only about $1bn a year in research and development, compared with $3.4bn by HP and $6.3bn by IBM....
...Fortune reported that Blackstone is considering recruiting Mr Hurd, former chief executive of HP, as Dell’s chief executive if it makes a bid and Mr Dell leaves....
...Microsoft expects similar growth for its server software and its other programs for businesses. HP clung on to its spot as the world’s number one PC maker last year, with a 16 per cent market share....
...To flesh out the equity investment in Dell, Silver Lake has enlisted Microsoft, which helped create the PC industry with its Windows software....
...accounting improprieties at the software company....
...“Our industry is being redefined and the cards are being reshuffled,” said George Kadifa, a director at Silver Lake, Silicon Valley’s biggest tech buy-out firm....
...boss of HP....
...Following a tie-up with Hewlett-Packard, McAfee’s Total Protection Service will come pre-installed on HP’s StorageWorks X500 Data Vault line of storage systems....
...Mr Ellison challenged IBM and HP to provide details on their new customers, and he said once Oracle and Sun were integrated, the tide will turn....
...The offerings pair Sun’s Fire servers and storage hardware with either VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation software....
...The software giant has announced a free version of Hyper-V Server 2008, its key virtualisation product, in a bid to woo businesses away from EMC, owner of VMware, the leading ”hypervisor” or virtualisation...
...Before that, he held CFO positions at Excite@Home, Sybase, Cypress Semiconductor and VLSI Technology....
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