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May 24 2012

Ovum comments: Mike Lynch to leave HP

It has been announced that Mike Lynch is leaving Hewlett-Packard less than a year after selling Autonomy. Tim Jennings, chief IT analyst at Ovum has the following comments:

"Mike Lynch's departure from HP seems counter-intuitive in light of the company's intention to reinvest in R&D following its planned layoffs. Lynch is a technology visionary, and parting company on the basis of poor sales execution in the division, indicates that HP has struggled to create a clear vision for how to leverage its very expensive acquisition.

"Since the acquisition, HP has allowed Autonomy to run autonomously (admittedly somewhat at Lynch's behest), including maintaining separate R&D functions, but this has made it difficult to benefit from the company's core technology within the broader HP portfolio, just at a time when it is one of the hottest areas for enterprise investment.

"HP would have been better advised to utilise Lynch's talent across all of its software business, rather than to allow him to remain at arm's length, and subsequently land him with the blame for poor sales execution."

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