Marc Andreessen is reporting on his excellent blog that HP has acquired Opsware which he founded in 1999 for $1.6B.

This is yet another one of Marc’s achievements and solidifies him (at least in my book) as one of the studs of the hitech business.

Ning, his current lovechild, recently raised $44M, with a reported post-money evaluation of $214M.

I wonder who’s going to pick it up in a year or two…

Marc Andreessen started blogging about a week and half ago. I would have expected him to have started ages ago…

Andreessen was co-founder of Netscape. He then founded Opsware. His latest venture is Ning which is a very impressive social network platform. Basically, you can create your own network using pre-built modules, or trick it out by editing your own version of the source(!) Very neat if you haven’t checked it out so far.

In any case, blog.pmarca.com is a pretty good blog so far and you should probably add it to you reader.