[cmrdporcupine]

My experience having gone through an acquisition @ Google (albeit 10 years ago and in a different space) is you might go in with the thoughts like yours expressed here: "wow, cool, think of all the resources Google has to make our product even better."

In reality: your product will be sunsetteded and replaced with a Google-created version of the same thing within two years; your key management (and other) talent will pace around for 3-4 years in frustration waiting for their stocks and acquisition bonuses to fully vest, and eventually most of the talent that can get a competing offer that is close to Google's proverbial buckets of cash will take that and leave.

That said, it might be different in Google Cloud where more of the infrastructure is closer to industry standard infrastructure instead of Google's bespoke creations. And there's a focus on the needs of what people outside of Google do and how they do it.

[jcims]

I did a short stint at Google and I saw this very thing. I think the one thing that’s a little bit different with Mandiant is that it’s largely a services organization. If they pigeonhole it as Google Cloud security then folks will bail very quickly. If they find a way to also extend it into their enterprise customer case as a value added service then I could see it being pretty interesting.