HP's vice president of software, Tom Hogan, said the Mercury acquisition means HP has a stronger presence in application management along with application delivery and performance and service oriented architecture governance.

"We'll take the best of our technology and the best of theirs [Mercury's] and bring them together," Hogan said.

Earlier this month HP officially absorbed all 3,000 Mercury staff.

Mercury's 64 staff in Australia have joined HP Software's 40 employees.

This brings local headcount to over 100 in HP's software division.