HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator

The UK's competition watchdog – often a fly in the ointment of proposed global tech acquisitions – has approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion buy of rival Juniper Networks. In a brief statement, the Competition Markets Authority said today: "The CMA has cleared the anticipated acquisition by Hewlett Packard …

[luis river]

Future sentenced for CEO Neri company

Me prediction.... about HPE-Juniper merger, that strategic step sentence to HPE on few years (approx. 12 years) to focus on hardware telecommunication market, godbye infrastucture business !!

[UnknownUnknown]

Re: Future sentenced for CEO Neri company

Hope they have done their due diligence.

[luis river]

Re: Future sentenced for CEO Neri company

Excuse me, unkown guy, HP department mergers far.. far..about approx. 3 decades had make mistakes, sell and buy companies, I believed firts great error was sell Agilent and other product of hardware that communication business of DEC, second forget their hardware vocation and enter on software business and services IT four telecomm. División HPE had invested total 20000m $ Peakcrest, 3com and now Juniper and others.

HPE is the Circles company

[Phil Kingston]

As if the UK's CMA saying "nah, we don't like that" would stop whatever deal two US companies wanted to do between themselves.