[webmonkeyuk]

Speaking from experience: they're not even managing to service paying customers well.

[geerlingguy]

That seems to stem from the fact they killed off pretty much the entire engineering team after the acquisition (judging by tweets I remember reading shortly afterwards).

[jimueller]

The Idera way, buy product, fire devs, offshore to feature factory.

[jrochkind1]

I will never again doubt what "purchase by private equity" means again, it is clear.

[shp0ngle]

It really depends on who is buying.

But with Travis and Idera it was pretty clear it will go this way, looking at past Idera purchases.

[Benjammer]

What exactly made you "doubt" this fact before now?

[jrochkind1]

I thought maybe there were sometimes exceptions to the rule.

[jcheng]

There are NEVER exceptions to this particular rule, at least not in tech.