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See, HP is open sourcing widgetry very much like theirs, widgetry that it developed for itself over the last seven years at the cost of "millions of dollars," it says, and 60 man-years work that sorts out the various licenses that govern open source software - imagine, there are 1,700 licenses in OpenOffice alone - and lets you know if said licenses have been tinkered with in any way. It calls it FOSSology and has made it available at FOSSology.org under the GPLv2. It's designed, it says, to address the acquisition, tracking and licensing of FOSS. It can detect code reuse and provenance even if the code has been changed. HP uses as an example the real-life case of the company that thought the FOSS software it had in-house contained 25 licenses when in fact it was 75 an... (more)

HP Goes with Mobile Thin Client

HP is about to put out a novel 1GHz Celeron laptop it calls a mobile thin client, its first, apparently the result of its acquisition of Neoware. Wyse, the other remaining thin client maven, beat HP, now the market leader, to the punch a few months ago and added two more models the other day looking much like HP's. HP's thing, which starts at $725, has no drive or fan or any moving parts a... (more)

Customers Select HP and Oracle to Modernize Legacy Environments

 HP and Oracle, in collaboration with Intel Corp., announced that their Application Modernization Initiative is gaining momentum as customers increasingly migrate away from legacy systems to drive business growth with more reliable and efficient IT infrastructures. Introduced last year, the Application Modernization Initiative is a comprehensive solution that helps businesses modernize th... (more)

HP Labs To Pursue 20 to 30 Large IT Research Projects

In a press event today at HP company headquarters, HP announced that it has sharpened the focus of its advanced research group, HP Labs, to address the most complex challenges facing technology customers in the next decade - dividing its efforts into 5 areas of interest: the information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainabili... (more)

HP Stock Falls 6.5% After Spending $13.9BN to Acquire EDS

HP's acquisition of EDS for $13.9BN - announced today - will, the company claims, double sales in its services business (already $16.6BN in fiscal 2007), but that didn't stop HP shares tumbling today on the New York Stock exchange. The price of $25 a share represents a 32.5% premium to the EDS closing price of $18.86 on Friday.  The deal makes HP second to no one but IBM, and is its larges... (more)