HP Autonomy Hackathons
September 9, 2014
In early September 2014, Hewlett Packard announced its hackathons. These are designed to “unleash developer creativity.” The hacks will demonstrate the power of [the] IDOL OnDemand platform.
HP has lined up events at DataWeek and API World, Legal Hackers, HackMIT Hackathon, and TCO14. The most interesting comment in the announcement is this statement attributed to the IDOL OnDemand “evangelist”:
IDOL OnDemand is the ideal platform for today’s developer looking to build amazing applications in the mobile, big data world. The hackathons are terrific opportunities for developers to engage with their peers and the IDOL OnDemand platform, and are always a lot of fun too.
For me, the most fun I have is watching Hewlett Packard sling mud at Autonomy, Deloitte, and former Autonomy employees.
The idea informing these hackathons appears to be building apps for HP’s Autonomy IDOL in the cloud initiative. Compared to ElasticSearch, HP is putting quite a bit of effort into this program. ElasticSearch, on the other hand, announces a developer training session and the developers show up.
Perhaps HP’s struggles with IDOL have something to do with one or more of these factors:
- Open source options / alternatives to proprietary information retrieval systems
- HP’s history of management turnover
- HP’s on again and off again approach to certain business initiatives
- The public relations stemming from the Autonomy litigation.
Did I omit a factor or two? Use the comments section to set me straight.
Stephen E Arnold, September 9, 2014
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