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From Alan Rodger, Research Analyst, Butler Group:

The Mercury acquisition is expected to increase the size of the HP Software business to more than $2 billion in annual revenue. It brings together the strength of HP OpenView systems, network and IT service management software with Mercury's strength in application management, application delivery, IT governance and service-oriented architecture governance.

Pressures to shorten delivery timescales, and accommodate increasing volumes of change very quickly, are leading customers to see the whole IT lifecycle as a single process, rather than separate worlds of application development and live operation.

HP's acquisition of Mercury can offer customers the capability to get to grips with issues around the business outputs from IT within the same framework as more technical IT delivery issues. This has the potential to propel HP further beyond the data centre into customer organisations, and to tackle application performance, quality, portfolio management, governance, and other high-value IT management issues that directly affect organisations' ability to deliver business value from IT.

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