HP integrate Mercury

Here is an interesting interview with Steve McWhirter, VP, HP Software Asia Pacific and Japan

Asked how the integration of Mercury into HP is going he replied:

While buying a company, there are a few things that should be looked at. It should be profitable, have a good revenue flow, good installed user base and ideally one that has minimum technical overlap. Mercury fits all these criteria so it’s a very good acquisition. In the next couple of months the Mercury integration will take place. All Mercury employees would be signed on to HP board by February 1, 2007.

We are strong in network management but are not strong in areas like application management and Mercury is very strong in that. So if we put both of these together we get an end-to-end infrastructure story, which is what customers’ want. Together we would also take care of other areas like governance and compliance and asset management. We now have a very complete portfolio and our existing customers are very happy about it. For us it is almost a doubling in people size so it’s a substantial jump in people size from the software point of view for HP. In APAC, 280 people are coming onboard from Mercury. Mercury also has an office in India with staff strength of 30.

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