10:52 Hewlettpackard company buys arcsight | |
Today is known to us all, HP announced the acquisition of a major software developer of network security. This is a company ArcSight, which HP acquired in half a billion dollars. Purchase was made to start work in a partly new to HP field, offering customers new products. I note that ArcSight has practically no mention of Habre, although it is really a very large software developer to monitor and detect network threats. Software from ArcSight and is commonly used by private companies and government organizations. HP paid for ArcSight, even more than she really stands - in fact as far back as last Friday, company's market capitalization amounted to 1.2 billion dollars. This is not the first time such a large purchase from HP this year and even this month. The fact is that in early September, 2 numbers, HP acquired the company 3PAR, for which also struggled to Dell. The cost of the company at auction rose to 2.35 billion dollars, even more than the amount paid for ArcSight. It seems that now many major IT market players try to bite off as much as possible a piece of cake, trying to occupy the new niches. But only in April this year, HP has made another major acquisition, buying a Palm for 1,2 billion dollars. Good buy, especially considering that HP has got and mobile operating system webOS. Interestingly, now the largest IT-corporations make similar acquisitions that are next in the time interval. For example, in August bought the Intel MacAfee at 7.68 billion dollars, and HP in the next month, takes over with a similar direction, although, of course, there are differences. In financial terms, from HP, too, like, all right. Recently, Vice President for Investments, Steven Filer said that such a purchase does not weaken the company and does not deprive it of the operational space - all because the HP has a good reserve, which is spent on such acquisitions. The same Steven Filer also said that the company can afford such purchases by the regime of control over their own financial flows, and feel quite comfortable. In general, this fall, committed a lot of big deals, but it's been only two weeks. In general, it remains to wait a bit and we'll see what new products we can offer HP. Source. | |
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