HP extends deadline as Autonomy shareholders drag feet

Interesting

Being that we actually use an Autonomy product, we where hopeful that HP would buy them out and fix their management problems. Autonomy dragging their feet is actually the way they do business all the time. We have have had nothing but problems since Autonomy purchase Interwoven a few years back. HP was our last hope to saving our iManage project. It may be too late now for that to happen. It is sad because the product is a good product matched with a piss poor company.

I can assure you it doesn't get any better

At least in my experience (if you're condemned to work on the Itanic platform).

If this merger falls through then HP is going to be in the market for a new CEO. Apotheker hasn't managed to get a single thing right so far.

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Looks like the Chemist might get a mere 40million dollars for a parachute.

Off the point perhaps, but what do you actually bye when you bye a company. The customers, the people, the products, name and reputation or the cash, or any combination of that.

I remember a company buying a well working smaller company just to find out, a bit later, that there where no people left, all that was left was the liabilities and a empty office.

So who destroyed that company, the buyer or the guys who took the money and run.

I also met a funny lady from Nokia who complained Nokia did not bye Apple when it was possible,

and later become a big company.

And there where those at Ericsson who complained they did not bye Nokia when it was offered to them, and later become a big company.

But, but and but, life and business is more complicated than "if".

@ cloudgazer

I would for a Gold Partner in the UK and I can safely say Leo Apocalypse so far has been an absolute disaster for HP so far.

He has halved the value in share price. Customers are renewing there kit with other vendor products and refusing the Proliant range of servers due truley awful Indian support.

He should be sacked and without golden parachute but a lead weight. The board need a bit of kicking for picking such a muppet. He obviously has not idea what HP' strengths are and abet weaknesses are.

HP should get back to things its good at - engineering. Bring the support back onshore where possible. Ditch the Bangalore bodyshop, it has and always will be a cheap substandard labour

With regards to a CEO surely there must be someone from within whose has the skills.

No more slash and burn merchants please (Hurd-/Fiorina)!

Autonomous as worried as the rest of us

When we were outsourced to HP we were concerned it was just EDS with a facelift. A year on, all our fears were confirmed (or HP has dragged itself down to the same levels). If the primary shareholders are the workers then I'm not surprised they have cold feet. They can look forward to mis-management, incompetence, and a new address in Bangalore.