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Fiorina's fuzzy vision
February 9, 2005
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says departing Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina had a vision. It just changed every few months.
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HP snaps up Mercury Interactive
July 25, 2006
Plans to bolster OpenView management software with Mercury's app development products--for $4.5 billion.
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CA's CEO-elect mixes it up
January 24, 2005
In first management move, John Swainson creates autonomous product groups, shuffles top executives, eyes more acquisitions.
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Hurd offers just a glimpse of HP strategy
September 7, 2005
At a meeting with investors in New York, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd presented a broad overview of HP's mission.
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McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape
June 9, 2005
Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.
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BEA Systems acquires Fuego
March 1, 2006
Company's latest buy to expand BEA's presence in service-oriented architecture software.
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MySQL fills Oracle-consumed hole in database
April 7, 2006
Open-source database company, with its own storage engine in the works, renews contract with Oracle around InnoDB.
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Praise, skepticism greet Oracle-Siebel merger
September 12, 2005
Reaction to Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems is mixed, but it won't be as complex as Oracle's purchase of PeopleSoft.
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Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source
April 10, 2006
Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights.
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Oracle posts higher profit on license sales
June 29, 2005
Business software giant posts better-than-expected earnings bolstered in part by applications license revenue.
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HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's discipline
August 28, 2006
Company investors and employees have two leaders to thank for HP's resurgence this year, as the Compaq bet finally starts to pay off.
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