Re: Intel buys Wind River

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 2018-06-27 18:25, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> 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.

Freescale was not very successful in promoting PPC?

> 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.

TPG looks quite chaotic. Let's hope VxWorks will not end like VMS.

Thanks for the information.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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