Hewlett Packard: 4th Quarter Friskiness
November 19, 2008
Hewlett Packard reported that its fourth quarter looked pretty good. You can read the November 18, 2008, report here. This San Francisco Business Times story mixed some bitter with the sweet with the headline “HP Extends Holiday Shutdown but Offers Upbeat Earnings Report.” The shutdown allows employees to be with their families and it also conserves cash, which for many companies is scarce. One source close to HP activities told me that Exalead, the French information infrastructure and content processing company, has signed a deal for Exalead to become the first information access vendor to join the HP Business Intelligence Partner Program. This is an HP initiative to deal with terascale information access implementations. HP bought Exstream Software for $1.0 billion earlier in 2008 and now the company is pushing into the business intelligence market. As more information becomes available about Exalead’s role in business intelligence with HP, I will try to document the trajectory of this deal. Exalead’s business intelligence demo that I saw in Paris was quite impressive.
Stephen Arnold, November 18, 2008
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