Tech giant HP is buying Eucalyptus, an early cloud-software startup. The acquisition points to HP’s acknowledgement that the public cloud spans beyond just HP’s data centers.
And HP will gain a key executive from the deal. Eucalyptus’ chief executive, Mårten Mickos, was previously chief executive of open-source database company MySQL, which Sun bought for $1 billion. Mickos will now report to HP chief executive Meg Whitman.
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