I thought it would be fun to take a different perspective on how to go about merging or acquiring a company…by focusing our undevided attention on how to fail at it. This article focuses mostly on the technology aspects and skips over Human Resources, Finance, and other non-technical areas. I will spend a little time on Operations, though…as Technology and Operations should be...
Since the Acquisition (press release maybe this Friday?) of Network Insight (NI), I’ve been spending a fair amount of time trying to understand the technologies of our new company. My responsibilities at NI have always included the technologies we used to run our business, and manage the networks of our many customers from within our 24×7 NOC (among my many other duties). With the...
UPDATE 10.24.2008: The acquisition is 100% official, so I’m updating this post to be a little less anonymous regarding the buyer. I’ll post the press release when it comes out. So, the big news is that my company, Network Insight, was recently acquired by CenterBeam. The formal press release has been delayed (due out the week of 10/27/2008), so I won’t announce the buyer just...