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Do you have some examples in mind for 1. pure technology play? I ask because that may be where I'm headed - thanks!
by 10ren 17y ago
Do you have some examples in mind for 1. pure technology play?
I ask because that may be where I'm headed - thanks!
- alexro 17y agoA recent example comes to mind - Etherpad
- 10ren 17y agoThanks, are the details of the basis of that public now? Since the code was released open source, it doesn't seem to be a technology IP acquisition (even though they appeared to have unpublicized patents). I got the impression that it was mainly to recruit the tech know-how of the founders - and that the amount was not in the range mentioned here, of up to $100M.
- grellas 17y agoIn think any situation where, from an acquiring company's perspective, the decision becomes one of "build versus buy" fits the description of a pure technology play.
- 10ren 17y agoThat makes sense, thanks; if you have an examples, I tend to find them very educational and helpful.
- whatusername 17y agoSO there's GOOG/YHOO/MSFT/AMZN/etc, but there's also places like IBM/EMC/HP/CISCO that are going around spending lots of cash. So look at edge cases around Enterprise Solutions where new tech (or moore's law) lets us do things that were too expensive previously. Some previous examples: Data Deduplication: Data Domain --> EMC, Diligent --> IBM Config Management/Provisioning: opsware --> HP, Rembo --> IBM
- 10ren 17y agomany thanks!
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