Enterprise Search Excitement: HP Autonomy Litigation News
June 10, 2015
It is not the weekend and there is some minor Hewlett Packard Autonomy litigation news. I read “HP to Pay $100 Million to Settle Case Tied to Autonomy Deal.” The write up reports that HP will pay $100 million to a settlement fund. In the words of the write up, the money is
to resolve a lawsuit stemming from an impairment charge HP took after paying $10 billion for the British company. The money will go to people who bought HP shares between Aug. 19, 2011 and Nov. 20, 2012.
According to write up, the litigation “has no merit.” If so, $100 million is a hefty chunk for something that is fairy dust.
One consequence of the HP Autonomy dust up is that enterprise search vendors are using some artful metaphors to describe their systems’ capabilities. With the Fast Search problem in Norway and the HP Autonomy issue in the US and the UK, enterprise search vendors have certain made me aware of the consequences of having a disagreement over business models and accounting.
Which enterprise search vendor is next in line to make headlines. I have heard that the Lexmark search push has resulted in some frowns and indigestion. Vivisimo has disappeared into the maelstrom of IBM and its software. Oracle is sending what I interpret as mixed signals about the benefits of its hat trick in search: Endeca, InQuira, and RightNow.
My view is that it is tough be a search vendor looking for traction using words like customer support and business intelligence. Worth watching the HP Autonomy imbroglio and the wordsmithing of vendors trying to sidestep the shockwave of high profile search vendor legal activities.
Stephen E Arnold, June 9, 2015
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Actually, it’s hat trick +1 for Oracle, you left out Triplehop. Oracle acquired them in the early 2000’s.