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Acquisitions and Divestitures

This is the HPAA's unofficial directory of HP acquisitions and divestitures.

The original press releases announcing major acquisitions since 2000 are here on HP's Investor Relations site. (Does not include product line acquisitions, development team acquisitions, or acquisitions of customer IT departments through outsourcing contracts.)

Recent events are highlighted in yellow. Dates given are the date of closure.

To add or correct a listing, please email.

 

There are independent alumni groups for many of the predecessor and successor companies. Please see our list of related alumni groups.  

 
    Acquired

Divested


A Agilent spinoff *  – 6/99
  Apollo * 4/89  
  Appilog (Mercury) 5/04  
  AppIQ 10/05  
  Atos Origin Middle East 11/07  
  Avantek 11/91  
  AverStar Compiler Team * 2/01  
B Baltimore Technologies SelectAccess 9/03  
  Bilderservice/PIXACO 12/05  
  Bluestone * 1/01  
  Bitfone 2/07  
  Boonton Radio 1959  
  Bristol Technology 3/07  
  BT&D Technologies 1993  
C CEC Europe Service Management 5/04  
  CGNZ Ltd 9/05  
  CoCreate spinoff  – 9/00
  Colorado Memory Systems 9/92  
  Comdisco Availability Solutions 8/01  
  Compaq * 5/02  
  Consera 2/04  
  Convex * 9/95  
  CSL Lab (to Intel)  – 9/01
D Data Systems (from Union Carbide) 1966  
  Dazel 6/99  
  DEC (Compaq) * 5/02  
  DeskTalk Systems (Trinagy) 8/01  
  Digital GlobalSoft (from 50.1% to 97% ownership) 1/04  
  Dymec 1959  
E Edge Emitter Technology (asset acquisition) 1994  
  EDISA (Brazil) 1994  
  EDS pending  
  EEsof 1993  
  Ericsson Global IT 7/03  
  Exstream Software 3/08  
  Extreme Logic 2003  
  EYP Mission Critical Facilities 2/08  
F F&M Scientific 1965  
  Freshwater Software (Mercury) 5/01  
H Harrison Labs 1962  
  HiPerformance Systems 1997 1989
  HP Credit Union employees left HP payroll in 2003   –  
I Idacom 8/90  
  Inacom Distribution (Compaq Custom Edge) 1/00  
  Indigo 3/02  
  INTRIA (100% of 10/98 joint venture with CIBC) 11/02  
  Itanium Processor Team (to Intel) 12/04
K Kintana (Mercury) 8/03  
  Knightsbridge Solutions 12/06  
L Logoworks pending  
M MacDermid ColorSpan 11/07  
  ManageOne 5/04  
  Medical (to Agilent, then to Philips) *   6/99
  Mercury Interactive * 11/06  
  Microcom (Compaq) * 3/97  
  Moseley 1958  
N Neoware 10/07  
  Novadigm 2/04  
  NUR Macroprinters 2/08  
  NuView manageX line 12/97  
O Opelin 2/08  
  Open Skies 10/98 12/00
  Opsware 9/07  
  OuterBay 2/06  
P Peregrine Systems 9/05  
  Performant (Mercury) 5/03  
  Persist 11/03  
  PipeBeach 7/03  
  PIXACO (Bilderservice) 12/05  
  Philips Information Systems (DEC) 12/91  
  PolyServe 4/07  
  Procter & Gamble Accounts Payable 4/04  
  Procter & Gamble IT 6/03  
  Prolin 6/97  
  Proxicom (Compaq) 4/01  
R RLX Technologies 10/05  
S Sanborn 1961  
  Sara Lee Europe IT Department 12/00  
  Scitex Vision 8/05  
  Secureware Internet security (product line) 2/96  
  Silverwire 6/06  
  Snapfish 4/05  
  StorageApps 9/01  
  SPI Dynamics 8/07  
  Symantec Networking 4/97  
  Synstar 10/04  
  Systinet (Mercury) 1/06  
T Tabblo 4/07  
  Talking Blocks 9/03  
  Tandem (Compaq) * 5/02  
  Technology Partners, SpA 6/06  
  TI Data Systems Group 10/92  
  Tower Software pending  
  Transoft Networks 5/99  
  Triaton 2/04  
  Trinagy 8/01  
  Trustgenix 11/05  
  TruLogica 4/05  
U UNIX System Labs (technology and developers) *    1996  
V Varian Quantum Electronics 1966  
  VeriFone * 4/97 5/01
  VoodooPC 9/06  
W WestLB global IT 1/05  

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