HP appoints leader for new Web services, software division
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David Murphy steps into the senior VP role from Mercury Interactive, acquired by HP last year.
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Blog: The Web application security company is to become part of HP's Technology Solutions Group. SPI Dynamics' tech is already integrated with HP Quality Center software.
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InfoWorld - HP is announcing on Monday SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc has appointed a vice president of desktop infrastructure technologies, a new position demonstrating its renewed commitment to Linux as a desktop operating system.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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(InfoWorld) - In separate SOA-related announcements this week, BEA Systems is upgrading its repository while HP is adding to its roster of "SOA Competency Centers." BEA is introducing a BEA-branded version of the former Flashline repository, gearing it to SOA environments. BEA acquired Flashline in August. The BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 2.5 is intended to assist customers with governance in SOA, specifically in dealing with managing IT assets in these architectures. Information is maintained about Web services types and definitions, service dependencies and ownership of services, said Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect for AquaLogic at BEA. New features include support for XPDL (XML Process Definition Language) and support for the BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 application server. XPDL is used for business process assets management. "The real business value that [XPDL] brings is you can connect the business process management activities with SOA activities," said Charles Stack, BEA vice president of engineering. While SOA deals with Web services, WSDL, and schemas, business process management is concerned with business processes and workflows. WebLogic Server 9.2 features zero-downtime capabilities, although this was first offered in the Version 9.0 release of the application server, according to BEA. BEA's repository also can run on the IBM WebSphere and Apache Tomcat platforms. HP, meanwhile, is expanding its SOA Competency Center program, with the company planning to open facilities in Cupertino, Calif.; Singapore; and Bangalore, India. The Cupertino and Bangalore facilities open on Monday; the Singapore site opens next month. The company in 2005 opened its first SOA Competency Centers in Sophia Antipolis, France, and Tokyo. HP bills the SOA Competency Centers as "comprehensive experience centers" enabling customers and partners to evaluate SOA technologies and implementations. HP capabilities in IT architecture, management, security and governance are showcased at the centers. Customers at these facilities participate in executive briefings, discovery workshops, and demonstrations and learn about horizontal and vertical solutions for SOA, said Terri Schoenrock, executive director for SOA with HP Services Consulting and Integration. Partner technologies also are featured and proofs of concept are developed. "For our customers, one of the key questions around SOA is, is it going to work for me in my environment?" Schoenrock said. HP anticipates the three new facilities will host hundreds of visits per month. The centers are part of HP's $500 million investment in SOA, HP said. To HP, SOA is "an architectural approach to business services that a customer uses to really achieve a business initiative," said Schoenrock. Concepts such as loose coupling, reusability, discoverability and service composition are considered critical.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has set up an SOA (service-oriented architecture) center in Bangalore, India, which will be one of five SOA centers run by HP worldwide.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Hewlett-Packard will detail enhancements to its virtualization products, the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system, and its AlphaServers this week during its HP World 2004 conference in Chicago.
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LOS ANGELESâSiebel Systems Inc., under the leadership of new CEO Mike Lawrie, is rededicating itself to ensuring enterprises&#39; success at implementing, deploying and managing its market-leading but complex CRM software applications.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard (HP) is strengthening ties to Microsoft to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market, delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM. Announced Wednesday, HP and Microsoft's joint $300-million, three-year investment to sell five different types of enterprise technology includes: -- Messaging and unified communications, including e-mail, instant messaging and video conferencing; -- Collaboration and content management, software that allows geographically-dispersed employees to collaborate on text, database, video and other files; -- Business intelligence, the analysis of data to help drive business decisions; -- Business process integration, which refers to the different processes enterprises use to run their businesses; -- and core infrastructure, the management of an enterprise's computer systems. The collaboration will generate 30 new products and services in the next year to 20,000 shared customers of the two companies. "Our customers, when they are looking for these solutions, are eager for what it brings to them, but they also want it at a very attractive cost," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP, during a news conference. Although HP, a maker of computers, servers and storage products, and Microsoft, a maker of operating systems and application software, have partnered for more than 20 years, the scale of this announcement makes it unique, said Livermore. "It pools Microsoft's whole portfolio to the enterprise and our whole portfolio...and that puts us in just a tremendous position." "Customers want to hear: how can IT advance the business? How can IT drive value in the business? That's the nature of these five solutions that we have," said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft. The combined market for business intelligence, collaboration, content management and infrastructure software is estimated at $49 billion in 2007 and the market for communications hardware and services is estimated approximately $60 billion, said John Gantz, chief research officer with IDC. The HP-Microsoft deal gives both companies leverage over their joint rival, IBM, which also sells hardware and software to enterprises, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, a technology consulting firm. Although IBM hardware also runs Microsoft software, Microsoft is getting closer to HP, he said. "Microsoft now views IBM as much more of a competitor going forward than a partner and it looks like they are shifting their attention away from IBM services and toward HP's," said Enderle. HP is expected to surpass IBM in revenue this year. HP had $91.7 billion in its fiscal year, ended Oct. 31, while IBM is expected to end its year on Dec. 31 with $90.72 billion, according to a consensus from analysts polled by Thomson Financial. "With HP now moving ahead of IBM, I think Microsoft feels comfortable partnering with HP more aggressively," Enderle said. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite of business software and Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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Â Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday signaled its commitment to the Intel Corp. processor architecture and carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications infrastructure, announcing it will introduce a blade server based on those specifications as part of a new hardware, software and services strategy.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit has picked a former Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. executive as its new chief operating officer (COO), the company said Monday. Yasuyuki Higuchi assumed his new position March 1. He was previously president of Japanese retailer Daiei Inc. and served as HP Japan's president. At Microsoft he will be in charge of the company's commercial and enterprise business. "I'm very excited," he said at a Tokyo news conference. "[Commercial] is the area I was heavily involved in at HP Japan ... so the area is one I am really familiar with." Higuchi was an employee of Compaq and came to HP when the two companies merged in 2002. Prior to Compaq he worked at Apple Inc.'s Japan unit between 1994 and 1997. As COO he will report to Darren Huston, president and CEO of Microsoft's Japan unit, Microsoft Co. Ltd. With Higuchi heading up the enterprise business, Huston will concentrate on the consumer sector, he said. "I hope to bring together our assets in a more consistent way," said Huston in an interview with IDG News Service. "We have a very strong portal on the Internet, MSN, we're launching a bunch of Live services, we've got some great products being launched in games for Windows [and] we've launched Vista in its premium version. So it's how do we bring those assets together and make more of an impact." Last week the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business newspaper reported that Higuchi is likely to take over from Huston as Microsoft's Japan president in about a year. Huston addressed the report on Monday and said that he would be here for at least the next financial year but didn't commit to being in Japan beyond that point. Â
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By Damon Darlin  Moving to quell its boardroom upheaval, Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that its chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, would step down in January and would be succeeded by Mark Hurd, the chief executive. The announcement was made before the U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Microsoft Corp. will enter into a new enterprise software agreement to be detailed Wednesday. The news will be announced at a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon that will feature Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, and Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. No further details about the nature of the agreement were revealed. HP and Microsoft have had a close relationship over the past two decades, described as a "Frontline Partnership" on the HP Web site. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of the new Office 2007 suite of business software applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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Ziff Davis - HP's worldwide director of Linux marketing sees HP embracing open-source software and exploring the Linux desktop.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Hewlett-Packard Co. said today that Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman of the computer and printer maker in January amid a widening scandal involving a possibly illegal probe into media leaks. She will be succeeded by CEO Mark Hurd.
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COO John Lilly taking over from founding CEO Mitchell Baker, who will remain chairman of company behind the open-source Web browser.