MP accuses Government of ignoring needs of British business as Mike Lynch ousted from HP It is not the product. It's not the market. It's not the competition. This is classic entrepreneurial company scaling challenges - it's a whole different ball game," said Meg Whitman, chief executive of the US computer giant. Sources claim that around a fifth of Autonomy's management team has left since HP bought the company, contradicting Mr Lynch's claims last December that it had not lost not one significant member of staff. At the time, Mr Lynch also claimed that HP had vowed not to interfere in the day-today-workings of business. "It understands that Autonomy is high-speed, smaller and more agile and it needs to be left that way," he told a conference. However, HP appears to have changed its mind, and will be replace Mr Lynch with Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer and a former Microsoft executive who was responsible for running its Windows business. The exit of one of Britain's most successful technology entrepreneurs came as HP chief executive Meg Whitman announced plans to cut 27,000 jobs at the company over the next two years.