[ubermonkey]

Are there any good examples of products acquired that then thrived or even really continued to do reasonably well?

It seems more common for a product to be acquired and then languish as the people who care about it leave or are forced out. For example: the Primavera scheduling tool has mostly languished since being acquired by Oracle.

[soganess]

Don't laugh... But beats headphones? Still reasonably popular and act as Apple's headphone market + supply chain testing platform.

[ubermonkey]

I guess I meant to specify software. I can think of a few places where hardware products got traction under new ownership. The problem seems to be one that only afflicts software products.

[fomine3]

PowerPoint, Visio, After Effects, Android (but very early), Java, Red Hat (currently)

Red Hat is on similar position.

[unmole]

YouTube?