Re: Intel buys Wind River

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 10:51:07 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2018-06-27 17:39, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 9:55:35 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> >> Ada is strong on VxWorks, thanks to AdaCore. In your opinion, would this
> >> have positive or negative consequences, or maybe none?
> > 
> > Well, given that this acquisition of WindRiver Systems by Intel occurred in 2009, I think that we have a pretty good idea what the answer to your question is nowadays.
> > 
> > I think that you mean:  Intel •sells• WindRiver to private-equity firm TPG Capital, and then those impact questions.
> 
> OK, I stand corrected. So nothing to worry or enjoy?

TPG = Texas Pacific Group

https://www.tpg.com/industries/technology

https://www.tpg.com/portfolio?field_industries_target_id=All&field_platforms_target_id=All&field_region_target_id=All&field_title_search=&sort_by=title&sort_order=ASC&page=0

Looking through the extensive portfolio of their partial- and whole-ownership companies would be an indicator of what they do or don't do to tech companies.  At first glance, I see that they:
1) owned Alltel, which they merged into mega AT&T in 2013;
2) own Intergraph, a science & engineering software company;
3) facilitated IBM's sale of its PC/laptop division to Lenovo years ago;
4) owns McAfee, which it bought from Intel divestiture in 2016;
5) owned SABRE (the airline-ticket reservation company) before taking it back public;
6) owns zScaler, cloud computing.

A number of years ago TPG was one of the private-equity firms that (along with Carlysle, Blackstone, and Permira) owned Freescale, which ended up more positive than negative.

If I had to guess, McAfee (also from Intel) and zScaler (industry allied to WindRiver) are the most indicative of TPG's current way of amplifying value of a company.