Recently computer business Hewlett-Packard finished its $4.5 billion acquisition of Mercury and got rid of the Mercury brand.  It announced that it will leave behind its OpenView systems and network management brand.

Tom Hogan, senior vice president of computer business HP Software told Computer Business Review that the Mercury and OpenView brands will be phased out slowly, with OpenView going even more slowly than Mercury.

The OpenView group of products was first released in 1988 by the computer business, and the first available products were network management tools meant to compete with IBM’s NetView network manager. OpenView now has grown to include asset management, business service management, configuration management, IT service management and operations management.

The departure of Mercury was not surprising to those in the computer industry, but that of OpenView is a bit more of a shock.  Computer business HP intends to call the new two-business combination HP Software, although it will use Mercury’s name for its marketing department, which was Business Technology Optimization (BTO).

HP will keep some of Mercury’s names for products, including its LoadRunner testing brand, though some will combine names from the two companies.  Hogan stated that the company doesn’t intend to announce any detailed product information until January in order to preserve Mercury’s business at the end of the year.

Although computer business HP is getting rid of the OpenView brand name, core systems and network management technologies associated with the brand will not be left behind.

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