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• HP takes ‘hard line’ as 60 staff pursue grievance

  Sixty Hewlett-Packard staff are pursuing a personal grievance claim against the company, after it withdrew a superannuation fund, according to current and former staff.

• HP and SAP strengthen relationship via SOA push

  Hewlett-Packard is offering more services supporting SAP’s SOA (service-oriented architecture) approach to IT as part of the companies’ increasingly close relationship.

• Human touch key to open source success

  Despite being distributed across the globe, and communications being largely conducted online, open source projects can benefit immensely from direct human contact, says one of the fathers of Debian Linux.

• HP swoops on Russian talent

  Hewlett-Packard is recruiting researchers to tackle fundamental problems in information management at a new laboratory in St Petersburg, Russia.

• Users wary of hardware HP’s push in BI software

  Hewlett-Packard recently added a new business unit to its software division to oversee the company’s business intelligence and information management offerings.

• HP rejigs software operation, creates BI unit

  In the midst of a company-wide restructuring effort, Hewlett-Packard has taken the next step in an ongoing reorganisation of its software operation. It has established a new unit to bring together its business intelligence and information-management expertise, which is currently spread out across the company.

• HP closes Mercury buy

  Hewlett-Packard is finally the proud owner of Mercury Interactive, after closing the US$4.5 billion (NZ$6.7 billion) purchase of the ICT management software and services player last week.

• HP unveils cluster computing on Windows

  Hewlett-Packard’s cluster computing products can now run a Microsoft cluster operating system.

• Fiorina bad, Hurd good: HP prospers

  A Canadian reader recently asked me “What’s happening with HP these days? Are they back for real?”

• HP extends its offer for Mercury for third time

  Hoping for a scenario of third time lucky, Hewlett-Packard has again extended the deadline for Mercury Interactive shareholders to approve HP’s US$4.5 billion (NZ$6.7 billion) pending purchase of Mercury.

• Email tracer used by HP nothing new

  The tracer software that Hewlett-Packard investigators used to try to sniff out boardroom leaks sounded like it had been ripped from the pages of a bad science-fiction novel. That is, until the company began talking about it in detail at a congressional probe into the spying scandal.

• HP in 7-year Pepsi deal

  HP has signed a seven-year deal with PepsiCo to provide data centre management services for the soda and snack maker’s international division.

• Survey shows support for boardroom surveillance

  Hewlett-Packard would apparently find plenty of support in the boardrooms at other US companies for its attempts to identify the source who was leaking confidential information to the media.

• HP snubs own WLANs for Cisco’s

  Hewlett-Packard’s services division has signed a deal to use Cisco’s wireless LAN kit —snubbing HP’s own wireless networking products.

• HP to take networked storage to SMEs

  Hewlett-Packard will launch a family of networked storage products in September to compete with EMC for small and medium-sized customers.