Unless companies are suing each other over patents, you can expect a level of disconnected PR speak when companies talk on the record about each other. Unless you disrespect Oracle, then it’s on.
Whoa: HP, the largest computer company in the world, is rumoured to be buying Autonomy — an enterprise software company — for $US10 billion, and spinning off its PC business as another company. We’ll see what that means soon, probably. [Bloomberg]