Hewlett-Packard buying Opsware for $1.6 billion

Today’s news of Hewlett-Packard buying Opsware for $1.6 billion cash shows how a lot of companies will look to automation to cut IT people, regardless of where in the world they work. Opsware helps companies automate tasks in large-scale data centers. Last week, BMC said it’s buying RealOps to give a major lift to its IT process automation tools.