Hewlett-Packard is buying Opsware for more than $1.6 billion in cash, which is a remarkable amount for a company with "more than $100 million in annual revenue and 550 employees." But it's great news for Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Opsware as Loudcloud in 1999. The story is on his pmarca blog.
Great, so what do Opsware do, exactly? It "built a comprehensive family of state-of-the-art automation software products that power the full range of technologies you find in a modern datacenter, from servers and applications to networking and storage," he explains.
Business Wire has the press release.
