About a year ago, HP (Hewlett Packard) has finished its 76-year history of the division on the printer-computer part HP Inc, software and server HP Enterprise. Each of them individually should aspire to the heights in their respective markets. It is assumed that specialization will improve the investment attractiveness of each half.
In addition to HP's own software development division of the company to a certain point began to acquire the company's profile. The largest purchases was the acquisition in 2006 of Mercury Interactive for $ 4.5 billion and acquisitions in 2011, the company Autonomy for $ 10.3 billion. The last acquisition was seen as a scheme with an overpayment of about $ 8.8 billion, followed by the initiation of legal action to the HP . All these purchases and other efforts were in vain, and in the past year, for example, revenue from the operation of the software HP division decreased compared with revenues in 2014 from $ 3.9 billion to $ 3.6 ppb Quite probably matured the idea that this trend is becoming a burden for key HP Enterprise business in the form of servers, networking equipment and storage of data .
According to the source, HP Enterprise Company expects to gain from the sale of software units from $ 8 to $ 10 billion. So far, more or less interesting proposal came only from the company Thoma Bravo, which already owns "software" dynaTrace companies, Compuware and other. But Thoma Bravo offer $ 7.5 billion falls short of the amount HPE dreams. Other candidates for the purchase of a software unit called HPE company Vista Equity Partners Management, Carlyle Group and TPG Capital.