HPE Gives Oracle Right to Buy 4.2M Shares at 1 Cent Each, Worth ~$205M
gurjeet · hn · 2026-09-07
Per Forbes, Hewlett Packard Enterprise granted Oracle warrants to buy 4.2 million HPE shares at 1 cent each — a stake worth roughly $205 million at current prices. The Hacker News thread speculates about what unusually generous terms imply about deeper server/infrastructure procurement ties between the two companies.
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