ABOUT HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. HISTORY
HP Mergers, Acquisitions & Sales Timeline
For over half a century, from the company’s first acquisition in 1958 to its 2015 separation into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett-Packard Company was a partner in some of the most important mergers, acquisitions and sales in the development of the modern tech industry. The table below lists some of the company’s most notable deals
Name
Acquired
FL Moseley Company
1958
Palo Alto Engineering Company (PAECO) (founded by HPC as an independent co.)
1959
Dymec, Inc. (founded by HPC as an independent co.)
1959
Boonton Radio Corporation
1959
Sanborn Company
1961
Neely Enterprises
1962
Harrison Laboratories, Inc.
1962
Data Systems, Inc
1964
International Control Machines
1964
Mechrolab, Inc.
1964
Delcon Corporation
1964
HP Associates (founded by HPC as a joint venture with employees)
1965
Datamec Corporation
1965
F&M Scientific Corporation
1965
Sample Electronics (later became HP Australia)
1967
Hewlett-Packard Japan (previously a joint venture between HPC and Yokogawa Electric)
1983, became majority owner
Hewlett-Packard South Africa (Hewlett-Packard Co. subsidiary)
Siltek
1989
Apollo, Inc.
1989
Texas Instruments’ commercial computer business
1992
Siltek, Ltd.’s HiPerformance Systems business
1997
Hewlett-Packard Korea (previously a joint venture between HPC and Samsung)
1998, became majority owner
HP’s test-and-measurement business
spun off as Agilent Technologies
2000
Compaq
2002
NonStop (part of Compaq acquisition)
2002
StorageWorks (part of Compaq acquisition)
2002
ProLiant product line (part of Compaq acquisition)
2002
Integrity (part of Compaq acquisition)
2002
RLX Technologies
2005
Mercury Interactive Corp.
2006
Micro Focus
2017
VoodooPC
2006
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
2008
Computer Sciences Corporation
2016
3Com
2009
Palm, Inc.
2010
Some patents sold to Qualcomm
2014
3PAR, Inc.
2010
ArcSight
2010
Micro Focus
2017
Autonomy
2011
Aruba Networks
2015
