Comments on: A Web 1.0 Success Story: HP Acquires Opsware For $1.6 billion

By: Wil Schroter

Wil Schroter — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:38:20 +0000

I had a hard time understanding the part where the raised $350 million to create a $100 million per year company. That just seems lob-sided.

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:46:46 +0000

HP Acquires Opsware For $1.6 billion…

HP has acquired IT Automation company Opsware for $1.6 billion….

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:02:41 +0000

Expect more moves with this kind of stuff. The datacenter is a hot topic at the moment because all the “Web 2.0″ applications tax servers and servers are expensive to buy, maintain, have to be kept cool, etc. I hear that a site like MySpace uses over 80 of them to power its site. I think they’re $6k a piece just for the hardware, excluding the manual cost of labor to configure and maintain them. I know lots of big players are looking to other alternative datacenter solutions, that’s for sure.

Not surprised to see HP make this move, since I believe they’re on the hardware side of the business.

By: bdb

bdb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:45:30 +0000

Other sites are reporting Andreessen walked with $138M, truth?

By: Internet Evangelist

Internet Evangelist — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:19:11 +0000

Mike must have said it’s 1.0 because, the old Loudcloud started during the boom days of first phase of web.
LinkedIn doesn’t have ajax [most probably] but it’s still web2.0

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:05:17 +0000

what on earth does it mean in the context of this kind of company to say it is a “web 1.0″ company?
Is a tech company “web 1.0″ because it doesn’t base its business model on ajax and widgets and adsense revenue?

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:18:51 +0000

Not sure whether this is good or not. I like some things about HP, but not a lot of others. For example, their website. Not the best. Their hardware - good, but too often there are incompatabilities even between generations - e.g. G4 and G5. Dell’s is much more stable.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:15:48 +0000

Good for them!!

By: aaronsw

aaronsw — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:25:09 +0000

that’s a great multiple, 1.65bn on 100m in revenues, which aren’t growing at warp speed. lots of synergies, but still, nice multiple for andreessen.

also, not sure how “web 1.0″ this is considering it really isn’t “web” at all. Net, yes. Web, no.

By: SVDaily

SVDaily — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:24:56 +0000

Andreessen is the man!!

By: First Post

First Post — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:07:36 +0000

i always thought that it was operating systems and electricity that “power the full range of technologies you find in a modern datacenter, from servers and applications to networking and storage”, not automation software.

By: First Post

First Post — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:05:45 +0000

this is gay