A lot of Autonomy employees are very unhappy with the company. See these Glassdoor reviews, where employees share their experiences. Among other things, the culture appears to be one in which limited correlations between sales claims and reality are permissible.
Caveat: Embittered ex-employees probably form the vast bulk of contributors to sites of this nature, so the reliability of the data should be treated as highly questionable.
... David Ferris, with thanks to a financial analyst chum