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Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch pushed Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) on Tuesday to specify its allegations that the enterprise software company cooked its books. In an open letter to H-P’s board published by tech blog All Things Digital, Lynch called on the company to publish its writedown calculations and release documents sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office. Lynch, who was fired earlier this year as Autonomy’s CEO, suggested the writedowns   H-P said are tied to fraud were really caused by the company’s mismanagement. Lynch also once again rebuffed H-P’s charges, saying: “I utterly reject all allegations [...]

Long before Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) bombshell accusation of fraud at its Autonomy business, Oracle (ORCL) was publicly questioning both the integrity of Autonomy CEO and co-founder Mike Lynch as well as his company’s valuation. After H-P acquired the enterprise software company for a final price of $ 11.1 billion in 2011, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said in a conference call that Autonomy had been “shopped” to his company as well. “We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high,” Ellison said, explaining the decision to pass on Autonomy.  Those comments didn’t sit well with Lynch, who denied Autonomy was [...]