TechMarketView dominates HP/Autonomy media coverage

What a busy week! HP’s proposed acquisition of Automony and its dereliction of the PC and Palm businesses dominated the tech headlines on Friday. TechMarketView posted four articles on the day and the stories generated a record number of quotes in the media. These included an interview with our Chairman Richard Holway on Radio 5 Live; quotes from Richard and our Managing Partner, Anthony Miller, in The Independent; and a comment from Richard in The Irish Times. We were also widely quoted in Computer Weekly, Microscope, Computing, Information Age and Computer Business Review amongst others. We will have much more to say about this farrago. In fact we're thinking of starting a countdown clock for Leo's tenure as HP's CEO. With FY results currently scheduled for 21st November, will he still be there in the new year?

Meanwhile, two other UK software giants - indeed the only two remaining - failed again with M&A in different ways (see today's posts). Sage was once again left minding its own business as MYOB was snatched from its grasp by Bain; and Micro Focus failed to find matrimonial harmony and decided instead to spread its dowry among its many wellwishers in lieu of a wedding banquet.

The previous week had seen Director Tola Sargeant’s views on CSC’s performance under the National Programme for IT in the NHS quoted in Computer World, and Angela Eager, Research Director for Enterprise Software and Application Services, commenting on Microsoft’s BPOS outage in The Register and CRN.

Once you’ve had a chance to digest all our HotViews, subscribers to TechMarketView’s Foundation Service can tuck into our latest research reports. John O’Brien, Research Director, compares and contrasts the first half performance of the major European systems integrators – Atos, Capgemini, Logica and Steria – in European SIs grow slightly ahead of UK market in H111. And our Managing Partner, Anthony Miller, analyses the best and worst stock market performers in IndustryViews Quoted Sector.

If you’re not yet a subscriber to our full research services (and if you are reading this you should be!) and you’d like to know more, our Client Services Manager Deborah Seth will be only too pleased to provide details.

Posted by HotViews Editor at '07:59'