Källor: HPE kan sälja enhet för 65 miljarder
HPE kan vara på väg att sälja sin mjukvaruenhet till riskkapitalbolaget Thoma Bravo, uppger källor för Reuters. Man har tagit emot bud på uppemot 65 miljarder kronor för enheten, enligt Goldman Sachs som sköter försäljningen.
Nyheten fick HP (HPE) att stiga kraftigt på Wall Street under torsdagen.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software
Wikipedia (en)
HP Software is the Enterprise software segment of information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
According to Software Magazine, HP is the 3rd largest software company in the world in total software revenue, behind Microsoft and IBM as the first and second largest, respectively. HP claims that the HP Software segment is effectively the globe's sixth-largest software vendor with 5,000 partners and 50,000 customers, and works with 94 Fortune 100 companies.
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Thoma Cressey Bravo
Wikipedia (en)
Thoma Bravo, formerly Thoma Cressey Bravo and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, is an American private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago and San Francisco. As of 2008, the firm has raised more than $1.5 billion in investor commitments.
The firm principally invests in high-growth industries, including health care and software.
Thoma Bravo invests through a series of private limited partnerships and its investors include a variety of pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors. Following its separation from GTCR (discussed below), Thoma Cressey raised three private equity funds:
1998 — Fund VI, ($450 million)
2001 — Fund VII ($555 million)
2006 — Fund VIII ($765 million)
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