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I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and i

by tzm 11y ago

I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product. They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum. SO will be the official forum going forward (which should have been in place early on). Expect a new search feature and cached results that will resolve these issues. More will be announced in the coming weeks. Fwiw, I built their new learning platform among other things.

aikah 11y ago
> They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum That's not what clients are asking. They want access to old threads period.Some people still need to maintain apps developed with a old version of the SDK. > I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product. That's corporate talk. It says nothing about how current clients will be treated. It's vague and unnecessary.
- tzm 11y ago
  Yesterday Axway was not in the mobile business. Today they are. I think existing customers will treated well as they vie for positioning. I think you could infer they want to retain and grow the business, not kill it.
  - invalidname 11y ago
    Want is different than would. This is a highly competitive market where Appcelerator is pretty far behind the technical leaders of the pack. It mostly carries thanks to its huge head start but on technical terms its gotten old. Most employees usually leave even with a good acquisition so if the acquiring company doesn't really "get it" this might be a problem.
- tzm 11y ago
  re: legacy q/a issue.. an archive search is now available: https://archive.appcelerator.com/ https://archive.appcelerator.com/

by tzm 11y ago

aikah 11y ago

> They are currently working on a plan to retain key information from the legacy q/a forum That's not what clients are asking. They want access to old threads period.Some people still need to maintain apps developed with a old version of the SDK. > I think the acquisition is a good move for both companies and the SDK / platform. Axway is well positioned to take the product and team to a bigger market and is committing more resources into the product. That's corporate talk. It says nothing about how current clients will be treated. It's vague and unnecessary.

tzm 11y ago
Yesterday Axway was not in the mobile business. Today they are. I think existing customers will treated well as they vie for positioning. I think you could infer they want to retain and grow the business, not kill it.
- invalidname 11y ago
  Want is different than would. This is a highly competitive market where Appcelerator is pretty far behind the technical leaders of the pack. It mostly carries thanks to its huge head start but on technical terms its gotten old. Most employees usually leave even with a good acquisition so if the acquiring company doesn't really "get it" this might be a problem.
tzm 11y ago
re: legacy q/a issue.. an archive search is now available: https://archive.appcelerator.com/ https://archive.appcelerator.com/