Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#32Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?
Companies rarely buy other companies in order to make buyee's product better, they buy them to boost the buyer's business or at least remove competition.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#33Somebody: Splunk has exorbitant prices and locked-in enterprise customers! Cisco: Oh these guys are just like us. Better buy them up. We know this business.
It's apparently cheaper to buy Splunk than to a buy Splunk license.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#34Somebody: Splunk has exorbitant prices and locked-in enterprise customers! Cisco: Oh these guys are just like us. Better buy them up. We know this business.
It's apparently cheaper to buy Splunk than to a buy Splunk license.
:-) May be team at Cisco just wanted to buy a license, and they said "Call us", and one thing led to another, and ....
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#35Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?
GitHub I'm sure there are tons of other, lesser known acquisitions... looking at what Apple acquires - seems relevant to be integrated into their products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... Oh, wow, they even acquired Intel smartphone modem business at 2019 and other Semiconductor businesses.
DarkSky seems to be a big exception to this
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#36I guess Cisco's AppDynamic acquisition from a few years ago isn't panning out. Or maybe they're complimentary, who knows?
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#37Somebody: Splunk has exorbitant prices and locked-in enterprise customers! Cisco: Oh these guys are just like us. Better buy them up. We know this business.
It's apparently cheaper to buy Splunk than to a buy Splunk license.
> It's apparently cheaper to buy Splunk than to a buy Splunk license.
Amen :)
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#38Wow - I guess I'm both surprised and completely unsurprised. Surprised because Splunk is a pretty big pill to swallow. Unsurprised because they've obviously been interested in the space for a long time (they attempted to acquire Datadog and got shot down). https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/technology/cisco-r... Good luck Splunk folks - Cisco isn't exactly known for their software innovation in the upper stack…
Splunk is a dead player too. It's a great match.
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#39Cisco and Splunk have no overlapping business models, do they? What's the strategy behind it?
Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk
#40Genuinely surprised anybody would acquire Splunk in 2023. Whenever you hear about Splunk from security engineers, they're actively trying to get off it (edit: yes, primarily because of cost). Better, next-gen SIEMs are either here or around the corner.
Splunk is a great product with horrible sales and business team. The reason why them _trying_ to get off it is because they have a bunch of stuff that is easy and works in splunk, but don't want to pay the exorbitant licensing, or pay even more to increase their use. But getting off a good product is hard, and they will continue to use it and even pay. The kind of thing Cisco, Oracle, and IBM love are companies with…
> with horrible sales and business team
I was in one of these meetings with like 20 engineers on how amazing this thing was. We knew that because we already used it it quite extensively. The very extremely hyper sales rep kept ducking out of the meeting every 5 mins. I recognized it for what it was. He was ducking out to do bumps of coke so he could be more pumped to sell us more stuff.