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HP has updated its SOA governance software, HP Systinet 3.00, which assists with discovering and reusing services in composite applications and business processes.

Constellation Energy invested in project and portfolio management (PPM) software from HP in part to comply with requirements laid out in Sarbanes-Oxley. In addition to achieving compliance, the integrated energy company reduced repetitive processes and is saving nearly US$1 million annually.

HP this week at Software Universe offered details about how it plans to build out its software and services business. Here are 10 things we learned that show us HP is serious about software.

HP this week unveiled new automation capabilities and tighter integration work across technologies the company acquired with Mercury Interactive, Opsware and Bristol Technology. HP took the wraps off its product enhancements in Las Vegas, where the company is hosting its Technology Forum & Expo and Software Universe conferences.

HP Tuesday announced its plans to acquire EDS for US$13.9 billion in a deal that would double HP's services business and revive EDS' position as a leader in global technology services. The acquisition will catapult HP's annual revenue for services from less than $20 billion to nearly $40 billion and position HP as the second largest services provider in the world. Here is a look at what is happening and why now.

The first thing they told us when a group of local media sat down with the head of HP's worldwide software division last week is that the company has a policy of not discussing its competitors. This, despite the fact that one of them happily answered my questions about the BMC takeover of BladeLogic a week or two ago, and despite the fact that the executive in question, Tom Hogan, wasted no time in bringing up IBM.

Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among technology firms. It is certainly Microsoft's largest. The company mostly buys smaller firms for less than a billion dollars to fill in gaps in its product lineup. But that may be changing. Last year, for instance, Microsoft bought Seattle online advertising firm aQuantive for US$6 billion, its largest ever until the long-rumored Yahoo deal was unveiled on Friday.

Technology can be your best friend or your worst nightmare.

Buoyed by a sharp improvement in its software business, HP reported a quarterly profit on Monday.

Count HP CEO Mark Hurd among those who believe the tech industry could be on the cusp of another major wave of consolidation.

Service-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories.