HPE dumps Grandpa Software in Micro Focus care home, hightails it The hospice bed that Micro Focus readied to admit Hewlett Packard Enterprise's sickly Software business is closer to being filled now regulatory approvals for the deal are in. The $8.8bn reverse takeover by LSE-listed Micro Focus, which hit the headlines in September, represents yet another piece of HPE that CEO Meg Whitman …
You're clearly out of the know at HP. Mike Lynch snookered Marc Andreesen into selling Apotheker on buying Autonomy at 10 times actual value during his West Coast "Buy Me" tour.
Old Aunt Meg sat at the corner of the Boardroom table, nodding her head yes until her wattles flapped.
Apotheker should have known better to listen to the fat boy and his old Aunt, so but got the heave ho while the two idiots who were most excited about it stayed on and continue to drive the Titanic into the iceberg at full steam ahead.
...Pretty unfair to castigate Leo .....his vision was a more software centric organization as opposed to commoditized hardware....what makes Meg's strategy brilliant? Two completely different philosophies and approaches...if you take the time to look at what is even driving the efficiency gains in h/w centric business it is software....so who will eventually be correct? too early to tell, but my bet is software....
This is a perfect opportunity for Micro Focus to turn around an unloved business. My guess is HPE has mismanaged the business for years, and has little idea of the customer base and when software licensing renewals are due.
Meg has turned HPE into a business with "puppet" managers, and "modern day apprentices". This is the chaos recipe as there has been no real operational excellence or performance in the HPE business for many years.
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