As part of the changes, the head of HP's Autonomy division, Mike Lynch, is being replaced by Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer.

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To help improve Autonomy's performance, Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer and executive vice president of HP Software, will step in to lead Autonomy.

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Also, HP said Dave Donatelli, EVP for Enterprise Servers, Storage, Networking and Technology Services, and Bill Veghte, EVP for software. will now report directly to CEO Leo Apotheker.

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"IBM wants to keep mainframes relevant, but you want to write software for the cheaper, more efficient new systems, " says Bill L. Veghte , vice president of Microsoft's Windows server division.

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