Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday that it will acquire management software company Mercury Interactive for US$52 a share, or US$4.5 billion in cash.
The head of Hewlett-Packard surveys the giant company, figures 150,000 workers is too many, and chooses to cut thousands of jobs.
Hewlett-Packard officials worked over the weekend to finalise the size of the layoffs, which will come within 5 percent of the previously targeted 15,000 positions, according to a source close to the company.
Hewlett-Packard plans to give customers a new weapon against viruses: software that crimps their spread.
Hewlett-Packard Australia will drop Digiland and eXeed from its distribution partner line-up in accordance with plans to rationalise its distribution channel announced today.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
In this CIO Vision Series interview, Wybrow explains how he fosters a culture of innovation against a backdrop of IT consolidation and outsourcing across Vodafone's mobile communications empire and 4,000-strong global IT workforce.
Bill Zeitler has to roll up his sleeves and fix Big Blue's server product strategy -- in a hurry.
To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
While UK businesses worry that Linux lacks the technical support options to make it an enterprise player, Australian businesses believe the open source operating system already enjoys the robust support they need to put it to work.
A new technology for connecting PCs to peripherals and other computers will bear fruit in 2004, but it won't conquer the industry overnight.
As Microsoft gets ready to unveil Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, hardware manufacturers are readying tablet products for release.
Microsoft will display a beta version of Windows XP next week that will run on tablet PCs, a new breed of computers that have touch screens and can read handwriting.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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