Fortify will be integrated over time into the HP Software and Solutions business.
Mostly though, Gupta spends millions of company dollars to give away HP software.
Mark Shoemaker, Executive Program Manager for Cloud Computing, HP Software, predicts that IT will have to become much more like a supply chain.
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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Its Tivoli suite (for managing and securing data centers and facilities) and other software products compete directly with HP's software offerings.
Hogan, the former chief of dot-com software firm Vignette, took over HP's software unit in 2006 and quickly launched a turnaround.
The software bundle includes HP's TopTools manageability software, which handles chores from remote configuration to asset tracking.
HP's software group was a moneylosing mess when Hogan arrived at the company three years ago.
HP's software, for instance, helped John Hancock Financial Services, the insurance and mutual fund company, figure out that 1, 000 of its PCs went unused.
Higher profitability and revenue growth gives Oracle an edge over competitors SAP, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the software and hardware market.
Those bits will be generated by application software designed and managed from the EDS acquisition, and hopefully travel through routers from the 3Com acquisition, in data centers managed by software HP built and acquired.
To emphasize how Autonomy would transform HP into a software giant focused on high-profit business customers, and, perhaps, to forestall some nagging questions about PCs and the tablet failure, HP also announced that it was exploring the sale or spinoff of the PC business and that it was closing the WebOS device business.
Finally, on the software side, HP is introducing native Hulu and Netflix to its MediaSmart software suite.
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Terraspring licensed its management software to HP in 2001, then sold itself to Sun last November.
Since then, Hurd's HP has focused on smaller fish, many of them supplementing HP's lucrative software business.
Hewlett-Packard's new CEO, Leo Apotheker, used his first public appearance to talk about the growing importance of data-analysis software to HP.
In so many words, ALT Systems will take the disparate pieces of hardware and software from HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games to provide an all-in-one buying solution for game dev studios.
"Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings, " said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP.
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With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.
With this partnership with HP, SAP can offer cloud based enterprise software immediately while all the heavy lifting is handled by HP.
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Eyeing the challenge from HP, IBM's software chief, Steven Mills, throws down the gauntlet.
With its printer business under fire, HP's latest corporate software play can't be a failure.
Under both Sun's N1 and HP's product is software from a startup called Terraspring .
Besides big competitors like HP and Sun, smaller software firms such as VMWare and Opsware are pushing their own virtualization visions.
They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
Autonomy would allow HP further reach into the software world.
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Mike Lynch, the firm's founder, rejected the charges and accused HP in turn of destroying his software business through its own ineptitude.
Handhelds running its PocketPC software, such as HP's iPaq and the new T-Mobile smart phone, now claim 21% of the market.
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