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In an alternate reality, Whitman places hand on heart and takes the blame: "I was on HP's board of directors when we made the decision to acquire Autonomy.
One suit we will not see: litigation by Hewlett-Packard shareholders against the directors for making a bad decision to acquire Autonomy.
H.P.'s deal to acquire Autonomy was announced in the summer of 2011, when Léo Apotheker was leading the technology giant.
Apotheker's plan was to spin off the hardware arm, but shareholders rebelled and the German was replaced by Meg Whitman, a month before his deal to acquire Autonomy had completed.
"At the time Hewlett-Packard agreed in principle to acquire Autonomy, defendants were looking to unwind the deal in light of the accounting irregularities that plagued Autonomy's financial statements," the lawsuit stated.
The deal to acquire Autonomy was conceived by Leo Apotheker, the then chief executive of HP, who planned to sell its personal computer division in order to concentrate on servers and software, a strategy in which the British firm was to play a leading role.
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Lane, a former executive at leading software firm Oracle, was in charge when the previous HP chief executive Léo Apotheker was given the go-ahead to spend $11.7bn£7.7bnbn) acquiring Autonomy, then listed on the London Stock Exchange.
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