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From OnStrategies' Tony Baer (and a longer column has just gone live as an ebizQ feature):

Well, it finally happened. HP put Mercury out of its misery, making a pretty good offer in the bargain. Mercury, of course, has been plagued by a scandal overt allegations that its three former top executives
(since fired) unfairly gamed their stock options. Significantly, recent SEC investigations are revealing that that Mercury was hardly alone among Silicon Valley companies in back dating executive options.

But looking ahead, the deal makes a good bit of sense. For the most part, Mercury's technology complements HP's OpenView portfolio. And as we note below, scandal or not, Mercury's IT governance product strategy
was beginning to hit the wall with its lack of direct connection to IT operations.

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