Oracle and Autonomy Cross Swords

What Larry said about Autonomy being shopped around jibed with what the rumor mill had been saying but at that time Autonomy chief Mike Lynch told the Wall Street Journal it wasn't true that Autonomy was shopped to Oracle- - even though he conceded that some investment banker might have thrown out Autonomy's name as a possible buyout candidate for Oracle. He as well said that Oracle builds products using Autonomy innovation.

The New York Times asked him why Apotheker

When the New York Times asked him why Apotheker was canned if the strategy was for all that the same, he reportedly said, "'There was not great communication'" of what HP is trying to do."

He wants to optimize them for Autonomy by the end of then and there year and get HP's services business flogging Autonomy. One plan, he told the Times, is "to store a copy of everything scanned and printed by an HP device somewhere in the cloud. That way, for instance, a phone camera could read a wall poster for a concert and be taken to a Web site to purchase tickets, bypassing the need for embedded bar codes to store information." Elsewhere, he mentioned dedicated appliances.

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