Eucalyptus buy puts HP back in the acquisition game

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Tech giant splashes out on open-source cloud software outfit

Three years on and the disastrous $11bn (£6.78bn) Autonomy acquisition still haunts HP. The deal was so toxic and rancorous that HP and former Autonomy executives are still feuding over who is r...

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