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Why Oracle Should Acquire HP

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    Jessica Davis

    | Posted 2011-09-15
 
 
 
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Silicon Valley's MaverickOracle CEO Larry Ellison is "unpredictable and buying HP and creating the largest tech company in the world would be a crowning jewel for the 'maverick' in Silicon Valley."
Can bitter rivals become marriage partners? HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) have done nothing but spar over the past year as Oracle hired ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd, HP lambasted Oracle for dropping support of the Intel Itanium platform, ex-HP channel chief Adrian Jones signed up with Oracle and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison publicly and colorfully criticized the HP board of directors on more than one occasion. Now as HP contemplates spinning off its PC business and has committed to paying way too much for a software company, one analyst points to several reasons why it may be a good idea for Oracle to acquire HP. Here's what Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi says about why Oracle may want to acquire HP
 
 
Jessica Davis covers the channel for eWeek and Channel Insider. Her technology journalism career began well before anyone heard of the World Wide Web and has included stints at Infoworld, Electronic News/EDN, and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Her work has also appeared on CNN and Forbes.com. She has covered hardware, software and networking, as well as the business side of technology. She has won several journalism awards, including a national ASBPE award for best staff-written column, and was named Marketing Computers hardest working tech journalist on their inaugural list of top tech journalists. Jessica can be reached at jessica.davis@ziffdavisenterprise.com