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Mish mash of companies and products without a strategy

HP Software Group is a substantial mishmash that lacks even the semblance of a strategy from other hardware manufacturers like IBM and EMC. Because HP has acquired and combined so many different pieces of software it’s not surprising that family may lack a coherence (think HP, Digital, Compaq, Tandem.) Between 30% and 50% of all existing HP software revenue has been acquired in the last 3 to 5 years. On of the latest, Mercury Interactive, was itself already the product of a few acquisitions.

At over $100B in annual revenues the $2.3B of software reported by HP is unlikely to get much attention from top management. As it stands the HP software product family is loosely concentrated around IT lifecycle management (ITLM) with products like OpenView and the Mercury offerings at the core. ^[1]

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