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| Type | Now owned by OpenText |
| Founded | September, 1999 (as Loudcloud, Inc.) |
| Founder | Ben Horowitz Marc Andreessen Tim Howes  |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California |
| Key people | Marc Andreessen: Chairman and founder,[1] Ben Horowitz: CEO and founder,[1] Tim Howes: CTO and founder,[1] In Sik Rhee: COO and founder,[1] John O'Farrell: EVP |
| Products | Cloud and automation and IT service management software |
| Parent | Hewlett-Packard |
| Website | Micro Focus web page |
Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California, that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Redmond, Washington, Cary, North Carolina, and an engineering office in Cluj, Romania.
In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share). The acquisition closed on September 21, 2007.[2]
HP subsequently split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The latter included Opsware's products and services and, in 2017, the HPE Software business group spin-merged with Micro Focus. Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText in 2023.
The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud was founded on September 9, 1999 (i.e., 9/9/99) by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes, and In Sik Rhee as a managed services provider.[3] The company was one of the first to offer software as a service computing with an Infrastructure as a Service model.[4] According to Wired, Loudcloud was one of the first vendors to talk about cloud computing and Software as a Service.[5]
In June 2000, Loudcloud raised $120 million, in what was at the time the largest second round of funding.[6] This was shortly followed by a $100 million raise by one of its competitors, Totality Corporation (at the time known as MimEcom).[7]
After selling the operations side of the business to EDS in the summer of 2002, Loudcloud became Opsware and went to market as a technology company, offering the software that had been developed internally to support customer systems via automated server life-cycle management. In 2004, Opsware acquired asset management systems provider Tangram Enterprise Solutions,[8] and in February 2005 acquired network device configuration management vendor Rendition Networks.[9] In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath for its Data Center Automation (DCA) product offering to add provisioning of storage components.[10] In April 2007 Opsware acquired Seattle-based iConclude and its run-book automation software in order to integrate datacenter management from end-to-end.[11]
In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share), sixteen times revenues. It was HP's third largest acquisition at the time behind Compaq and Mercury Interactive.[12] HP marketed Opsware products and software as a service solutions as part of the HP Software Business Unit.[13]
In 2015, HP's Software business unit was spun off to become part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. Two years later in 2017, HP Software merged with UK-based Micro Focus in a spin-merge. In 2023, OpenText acquired Micro Focus. All former Opsware tools are now grouped under the OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management suite.
Opsware had three main systems that it marketed. The Server Automation System (SAS) was designed to provide provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance reporting, and patching of Windows, Unix and Linux servers across thousands of servers. It is now sold as HP Server Automation software.[14] The Network Automation System (NAS) was designed to provide network device provisioning, policy enforcement, security lock-down, software management, and compliance reporting across thousands of devices from over 500 variants of device vendors, models, and OS versions. This product was also OEM'd by Cisco Systems and was called the Cisco "Network Compliance Manager" (NCM). It is now sold as HP Network Automation software.[15] The third system marketed by Opsware was the Process Automation System (PAS), designed to provide run-book automation from former partner iConclude (who was acquired in March 2007). It is now sold as HP Operations Orchestration software.[16]
Opsware customers included its now parent HP, GE, EDS (whose acquisition was completed by HP August 26, 2008,[17] and is now called HP Enterprise Services[18]), the Federal government of the United States and numerous Fortune 500 companies who used the software to automate their IT infrastructure.
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Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California, that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware had offices in New York City, Redmond, Washington, Cary, North Carolina, and an engineering office in Cluj, Romania. In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.65 billion in cash ($14.25 per share). The acquisition closed on September 21, 2007. HP subsequently split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The latter included Opsware's products and services and, in 2017, the HPE Software business group spin-merged with Micro Focus. Micro Focus was acquired by OpenText in 2023.
Marc Lowell Andreessen ( an-DREE-sən; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. In 2024, he became an advisor to Donald Trump. As of June 2026, Forbes estimated Andreessen's net worth at $1.9 billion.
Benjamin Abraham Horowitz (born January 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz along with Marc Andreessen. He previously co-founded and served as president and chief executive officer of the enterprise software company Opsware, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2007. Horowitz is the author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, a book about startups, and What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture.
Scott Aaron Kupor (born October 6, 1971) is an American business executive and investment banker who has served as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management since 2025. Kupor graduated from Stanford University with a degree in public policy, and later its law school with a Juris Doctor in 1996. He worked at Credit Suisse as an investment banker managing initial public offerings. In 1999, Kupor began working for Loudcloud, a cloud computing firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. He remained with the company after it sold much of its business off and renamed itself to Opsware in 2002 and worked for Hewlett-Packard as an executive after it acquired Opsware in 2007. Kupor was the first employee hired by Andreessen and Horowitz's venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. He served as the chair of the National Venture Capital Association from May 2017 to May 2018. In December 2024, President-elect Donald Trump named Kupor as his nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management. He appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in April 2025. Kupor was confirmed by the Senate in July.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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