https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/leo_apotheker_autonomy_was_pure_play_software_company/

Autonomy Trial Former HP top man Léo Apotheker told the High Court yesterday morning that Mike Lynch described Autonomy to him as a "pure-play software company".

HPE's case is that nobody from their side knew very much about Autonomy's hardware dealings before it bought the unstructured data analysis business for $11bn in 2011. Autonomy's annual report for 2010 (PDF) stated: "Autonomy is one of the very rare examples of a pure software model."