Came across a tiny news blurb yesterday that caught my eye when I recognized the company name and location... Foedus, a 30-head firm on Pease, has been bought by VMWare (NYSE:VMW). When I typed in Foedus.com for more info, I found the domain already redirects to the new parent company. But I could still see the Foedus site here.According to the press release, VMWare is on a bit of a spending spree, having also purchased the much larger firm Thinstall; as such, the Foedus acquisition gets a small paragraph at the bottom of the release:
VMware Acquires Assets from Foedus
VMware also disclosed its acquisition of services-related assets from Foedus, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based provider of virtualization technologies and services. VMware intends to leverage Foedus’s application and desktop virtualization services expertise to help VMware partners expand their virtualization services business. Foedus’s remaining assets, including the company’s sales and marketing organizations, were acquired earlier this month by GreenPages Technology, a national, consultative IT solutions provider and VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) partner.
What does it mean? David Marshall at InfoWorld blogged: "This is further proof that virtualization expertise is hard to come by and in many cases perhaps easier to acquire than to train."I'm awaiting news from my contact at Foedus as to what this all means to them, but surely, congratulations are in order for them!
2 comments:
To be accurate, Foedus was more like a 60 person company. The balance of the people being let go with no warning and minimal severance. It would seem anything but congratulations are in order when people take a profit at loyal employee's expense. I think the people, some of who were openly weeping would find the tone of the article insulting.
Just to set the record straight.
Your comment is very much appreciated. All too often, the employees suffer when their companies get bought. Naively, I had hoped this might be an exception.
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