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So Autonomy has been bought by Hewlett Packard, the 2nd largest IT services supplier in the world.

Will this mean anything spectacular for the world?

So far no one is saying much about it. HP themselves are saying they are getting out of consumer products and into supplying business services.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b0371e98-ca7d-11e0-aedd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1VmojtpN1

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The company stunned shareholders with simultaneous announcements late on Thursday that it was likely to spin off the world’s best-selling personal computer line, pull the plug on tablet computing, buy UK software group Autonomy and re-evaluate a range of other assets.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110818b.html

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If HP knew they had bought technology that could literally alter the world and its workings almost overnight, well, 3 to 6 months (maybe a year for full on global) don't  you think that there would be some inkling of it in the media somewhere out there?

There isn't.

Would there have been a 23point drop in HP share prices if the world knew what HP now had to offer the world?

I don't think so.

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