Technology

Identity management – the next big thing

HP has promised a stronger commitment to the software game.

01 February 2006

At its Software Universe conference held in Nice at the beginning of December last year, HP announced among other things, that it would show a stronger commitment to the software game and adopt a strategy where its software division would be run as a more independent organisation than ever before.

GOOD MONEY TO BE MADE

This move it seems was driven to a great degree by the fact that, according to Andy Isherwood, VP and GM of the software business for EMEA, the ‘pure-play` software portion of HP`s business at the end of last year represented $1 billion of revenue (derived from both licensing and support) with an operating profit of roughly $300 milion.

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