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(Image via Wikipedia) Maybe HP’s $10 billion bid for enterprise software-infrastructure star Autonomy isn’t so crazy after all. After all, Autonomy gives HP a roster of 20,000 global enterprise-software clients, including Shell, Nestle, Tesco, T-Mobile, Coca Cola, Lloyds Banking Group, FedEx, Boeing, GlaxoSmithKline, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup. Plus, Autonomy would also make HP one of the largest—if not the largest—private-cloud operator on the planet. In a business world that’s....