http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/management-buyout-at-global-360/ Bruce Silver's blog on business process management Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:01:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/management-buyout-at-global-360/comment-page-1/#comment-49 IT|Redux » Acquisitions Create Opportunities Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:19:17 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2006/04/03/management-buyout-at-global-360/#comment-49 [...] The Global 360 buyout is intruiguing. Bruce Silver posted an interesting article on the subject, and I still cannot figure out whether the new owner will keep developing Global 360’s products, or will want to milk that cow with minimal investments instead, much like Computer Associates does with most of its acquisitions. In any case, this type of acquisition of legacy workflow vendors, similar to the Staffware acquisition made by TIBCO last year, creates an opportunity for a vendor like Intalio to help existing customers migrate to an Open Source and standards-based BPM solution. If you’re one of these customers and worry about the long-term support for the product you are currently using, feel free to give us a buzz. And if several such customers team up through our Demand Driven Development Program, we might be able to develop some nice migration tools that will make the transition even easier. [...] [...] The Global 360 buyout is intruiguing. Bruce Silver posted an interesting article on the subject, and I still cannot figure out whether the new owner will keep developing Global 360’s products, or will want to milk that cow with minimal investments instead, much like Computer Associates does with most of its acquisitions. In any case, this type of acquisition of legacy workflow vendors, similar to the Staffware acquisition made by TIBCO last year, creates an opportunity for a vendor like Intalio to help existing customers migrate to an Open Source and standards-based BPM solution. If you’re one of these customers and worry about the long-term support for the product you are currently using, feel free to give us a buzz. And if several such customers team up through our Demand Driven Development Program, we might be able to develop some nice migration tools that will make the transition even easier. [...]

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