Recently, the U.S. "Forbes" magazine quoted an analyst as saying that the U.S. high-tech, next year, the U.S. Hewlett-Packard in the software in a more large-scale mergers and acquisitions, HP may buy two or three software companies.
The analysis made in the United States, "Technology Business Research," an analyst Momin Khan.In an interview with "Forbes" magazine interview, he predicted that next year, Hewlett-Packard may acquire two or three software companies.
Khan said: "Next year, HP expects revenue will be from the software business for 10 billion dollars this year to double to 20 billion."
He even expected, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd in 2008 will even build a software business income of 3.0 billion U.S. dollars in a large department.
The analysts predicted that HP's acquisition of software companies in the business intelligence analysis may be, security, systems management, IT asset tracking and other fields.
Khan even given a few more ideal software industry acquisition target.The first is called Paris a "Business Objects" of the company, develops business intelligence software.The analysts said the company had sales last year, 1.1 billion, is expected to reach 1.2 billion.The company's products will be very consistent with HP's OpenView software product line, helping the company achieve 08 HP software income of 3.0 billion target.
The analysts said HP may also buy some security software vendors, such as which companies like CheckPoint and SourceFire.He said that these companies can make Hewlett-Packard have professional security technologies and products.They are similar to the security giant McAfee, but it can buy a very low price.