HP Software Universe wraps up today and the vendor succeeded in hosting thousands of customers in Las Vegas, while HP made significant news around its broad software portfolio. HP executive management admitted to customers it has shortcomings in its support organization and announced a technology development partnership with hypervisor market leader VMware that promises to give the management vendor an edge over competitors.
As I sit at McCarran International Airport tapping the free Wi-Fi (better connection than in my room at the Venetian) and fill the hour and a half delay (naturally) on my American flight, I wonder what I will be hearing from HP in the coming months, prior to next year’s installment of Software Universe.
Will the vendor break more acquisition news? Will the EDS buy go through without a hitch? Could an HP services business shake up the world’s outsourcing market? When will HP Software start bringing in a bigger chunk of HP’s more than $100 billion in revenue? And will HP ultimately succeed in its efforts to bring IBM down?
As one industry analyst put it, “HP is not copying IBM; it is attacking IBM.”
