H.P. added that a senior executive at Autonomy pointed to the questionable practices after Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder and former chief executive, left H.P. Mr. Lynch denied the charges.
Mike Lynch, the former chief executive of Autonomy, denies that the company's financial statements were misleading or contained improprieties.
MICHAEL LYNCH, chief executive of Autonomy, a Cambridge-based software firm, is showing off Aurasma, its new smartphone application.
The former chief executive of Autonomy has posted an open letter to shareholders with some questions he'd like raised at Wednesday's shareholders' meeting in Mountain View, Calif.
According to Oracle, the chief executive of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, visited its offices to meet with Mr. Hurd and Oracle's head of mergers, Douglas Kehring.
"The plaintiffs asked for 500 keywords to search on," said Mike Sullivan, chief executive of Autonomy Protect, the company's e-discovery division.
"The problem you have is that any one of these agencies can come up with pieces of the puzzle," said Michael R. Lynch, the chief executive of Autonomy.
The former chief executive of Autonomy, the British software maker at the center of Hewlett-Packard's latest scandal denied that his former company committed any accounting chicanery or misled anyone about its financial information.
Hewlett-Packard learned of what it said were accounting improprieties this spring, after a senior finance executive at Autonomy alerted management to e-mails, memos and other documents that purportedly detailed fraud in the years before the 2011 transaction.
The former chief executive of Autonomy claimed that Hewlett-Packard was watering down the accusations it had levelled against him over the accounts filed by his old software company – and said that he had not heard from the US Department of Justice, which HP had revealed had opened an investigation into the dispute last month.
