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HP to buy Opsware for £1.6bn
News Opsware is the latest in a number of purchases by HP - last year it acquired management software company Mercury Interactive for $4.5bn. The acquisition will help HP customers with "one of their critical pain points" - how to control the increasing... [23 Jul 2007]
HP does SOA much more
News HP has stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture (SOA), announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive. The company also announced it has more closely integrated... [22 May 2007]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study The financial services company is using Mercury's Quality Center and Performance Center products to spot and fix problems quickly. Craig Gibbons, senior IT consultant at Friends Provident told silicon.com: "If you go back about three years, IT at... [08 Nov 2006]
HP-Mercury merger comes to the boil
News Traub, along with Yuval Scarlat, a Mercury senior vice president of applications and product development, noted that because there is little overlap between the OpenView and Mercury product lines, there is relatively little integrating to do. [08 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: WCIT
Cheat Sheet It also features a book and keys to symbolise knowledge, and the crest features Mercury, the messenger god, who embodies communication. All the members are senior IT professionals who have joined the company in order to give something back to the... [04 Sep 2006]
HP to grab Mercury Interactive for $4.5bn
News The Mercury business group will report to Thomas Hogan, senior vice president of software for HP. HP announced on Tuesday it will acquire management software company Mercury Interactive for $52 per share, or $4.5bn in cash. [26 Jul 2006]
Google fights US gov't request for search data
News The Bush administration's request, first reported by The San Jose Mercury News, is part of its attempts to defend the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (Copa), which is being challenged in court in Philadelphia by the American Civil Liberties Union... [20 Jan 2006]
CIOs: Get ready for the "next big thing"
News Forrester, commissioned by Mercury Interactive, has carried out a survey of 122 senior IT decision-makers in Global 2000 companies in North America and Europe showing the majority "struggle to meaningfully measure and manage business applications". [30 Sep 2002]
Tech giants under the accounts spotlight
News The proposal has provoked a mixed reaction among Silicon Valley's great and good, according to reports in the San Jose Mercury News. In the wake of Enron, WorldCom and more recently Qwest, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is eager to... [30 Jul 2002]
PCs: the environmental cost
News PCs and monitors contain large quantities of lead, mercury and cadmium among other toxic chemicals. However, according to Vidhya Alakeson, senior policy adviser for the European sustainable development think tank Forum for the Future, Europe has no... [25 Feb 2002]
Compaq's Capellas collects the cream
News Capellas's £1.6m salary does not count the share options he has been given - worth up to £9.2m according to the San Jose Mercury - and the £1.4m in debts Compaq forgave the CEO over the past twelve months. [31 Jan 2002]
Redstone chops top jobs
News Simon Slater-Thomas, founder and veteran of BT and Mercury, is to be the new non-executive chairman. Glyn Thomas, the COO appointed a year ago, and Bob Cushing, the group strategy and business development director, have been paid off after being... [21 Mar 2001]
Only one in five websites meeting performance targets
News That's the damning finding of research conducted by automated testing company Mercury Interactive over the last 10 months. Furthermore, Mercury found that 70 per cent of the sites cannot cope with the traffic they're receiving, failing to reach 30... [06 Nov 2000]
Oftel slams Cable & Wireless on billing U-turn
News The best example is Mercury One2One which now finds free local calls a significant drain on resources. Susen Sarkar, senior analyst at YankeeGroup Europe, said: "This shows the problem with offering a free service to customers and then trying to... [03 Sep 1999]
C&WC and Telewest enter merger talks
News Cable & Wireless is talking about pulling out of the cable business and buying back Mercury so it can concentrate on its corporate business. While C&WC had planned to integrate Mercury's network with its cable networks but failed... [07 Apr 1999]
