HP to bulk up software group with Bristol buy

Hewlett-Packard said on Monday that it intends to acquire Bristol Technology, a company that sells software for monitoring complex business transactions. No financial details were disclosed. Bristol's software will be sold through the HP software group, the company said of the deal, expected to close in 30 days.

HP said Bristol's transaction-monitoring software complements the testing and systems monitoring products it gained through its Mercury Interactive buy. "The acquisition of Bristol Technology extends our business service management solution and BTO (business technology optimization) offerings by helping customers better manage the performance, availability and impact of these business processes," Deborah Traub, vice president of products for HP management software, said in a statement. Bristol has already integrated its technology with HP's system-monitoring database, the companies said.

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HA!!

Utilizing the technology from its "offerings" HP is continuing in its rampant, aggragation of information concering all its customers and their activities.

The obvious transgression in the pretexting scandal serve to highligh a business organization that secured exclusions from serious prosecutions and avoidance of it nefarious activities.

Apparently the security advisory boards still does not have a handle on "social contexting"

Too bad recent investigations did not look closer. Has anyone yet examined the packets to and from a simple PC. Capture devices on segregated ntwks make for interesting on site maintenance 'activites'. Do businesses regular secure legal protection from any vendor's gleening?