HP Settles EMC Patent Suit, Becomes Reseller

The long drawn out cross suits between EMC and HP are settled. To "balance" the transaction, HP will buy $325 million in EMC products spread over the next five years.

While HP's storage group needs a whole lot of help, this is not the deal to do it with. Instead, expect HP to load up on VMware, the OS partitioning software that will become even more valuable later this year as Intel launches hardware-assisted virtual partitions in Xeon server microprocessors.

Peter S. Kastner