Back when the deal was announced I was exteremely skeptical. $10.2 billions for a relatively unknown UK software company that focuses on document management? 10 billions?! Their (Autonomy's) past acquisitions looked rather erratic to me. I also did not understand as to why a hardware company like HP would buy a software company in the first place. Then there were all the glassdoor posts discussed here on HN... the whole deal just looked shady even back then.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902749 I just stumbled upon this comment by AlexMuir, it was the most upvoted comment on the HN discussion about HP's acquisition of Autonomy

AlexMuir pretty much called it.