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HP Buys Cloud Provider, Gets Marten Mickos To Head Its Cloud Division

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:28AM from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed dept.

jfruh writes: In 2010, HP tried to buy its way into the analytics game by shelling out billions for Autonomy, a deal that was a famous disaster. But that isn't stopping the company from making big buys: it will be buying Eucalyptus, a cloud provider headed by ex-MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos, and bringing Mickos in to head the new HP Cloud division.

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Re:LOL ... by i+kan+reed · 2014-09-12 06:56 · Score: 3, Insightful

If I had to guess, it's a sign of outdated software, and a bureaucratically enforced software standardization.
h20565 being a server host's identity, www2 being a subnet for their "second generation" website makeover done sometime in the 90s or early 2000s, and the stuff at the end being some sort of session tracking based navigational nightmare.