Hewlett-Packard has finished the $12bn (7.8bn) buy-out of UK program definite Autonomy, notwithstanding the leaving of the human who instituted it.
Leo Apotheker was transposed as HP arch senior manager final month among descending sales and a share cost collapse.
The Autonomy treat was segment of a large renovate of the plagued US P.C. hulk denounced by Mr Apotheker.
But skeleton to turn off its core Personal Computer business received a thumbs down from the market.
HP's shares have depressed 47% this year, creation it a of the worst performers in the Dow Jones index of heading US companies.
The buy cost for Autonomy was moreover at large criticised by marketplace analysts as as well high, but British takeover manners done it roughly unfit to call off the bid.
Meg Whitman, the one-time head of eBay who transposed Mr Apotheker, mentioned before long after her appointment that the treat would still go ahead.
The UK firm's head, Mike Lynch, after that got in to a charming squabble with HP opponent Oracle, who claimed that Mr Lynch had sought a opponent bid from them and been declined.
Oracle's arch senior manager Larry Ellison described the asking cost as "absurdly high".
HP's shares closed 1.1% descend on Monday, outperforming the wider market.
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