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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 from HP * 6/99
  AOT (Applied Optoelectronic Technology)  (to Agilent) 1991 6/99
  Apollo * 4/89  
  Appilog (Mercury) 5/04  
  AppIQ 10/05  
  Atos Origin Middle East 11/07  
  Avago spinoff from Agilent 12/05
  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 CDS (formerly Synstar) 10/04  
  CEC Europe Service Management 5/04  
  CGNZ Ltd 9/05  
  CoCreate spinoff 9/00
  Colorado Memory Systems 9/92  
  Colubris Networks pending  
  Comdisco Availability Solutions 8/01  
  Compaq * 5/02  
  Consera 2/04  
  Convex * 9/95  
  CSC-New Zealand 12/01  
  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 8/03  
  EYP Mission Critical Facilities 2/08  
F F&M Scientific 1965  
  Freshwater Software (Mercury) 5/01  
G GlobalSoft, Digital (from 50.1% to 97% ownership) 1/04  
H Harrison Labs 1962  
  Heartstream 3/98  
  Hewlett-Packard Japan (from 75% to 100%) 1999  
  Hewlett-Packard Korea (from 55% to 100%) 1998  
  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  
  Lumileds (to Agilent, then to Philips) 12/05
M MacDermid ColorSpan 11/07  
  ManageOne 5/04  
  Marvell printer ASICs (to Agilent, Avago, Marvell) 4/06
  Medical (to Agilent, then to Philips) * 6/99
  Mercury Interactive * 11/06  
  Metrix Network Systems 5/93  
  Microcom (Compaq) * 3/97  
  Moseley 1958  
N Neoware 10/07  
  Netman (DEC) 1997  
  Nokia IT 11/01  
  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  
  Philips Lumileds (to Agilent, then to Philips) 12/05
  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 Samsung Hewlett-Packard (from 55% to 100%) 1998  
  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  
  The Technology Partners, SpA (TTP) 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
  Versatest (to Agilent) 1994 6/99
  VoodooPC 9/06  
W WestLB global IT 1/05  
Y Yokogawa Analytical (from 51% HP to 100% Agilent) 2/06  
  Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard (from 49% to 75%) 1983  

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