2011-11-16T16:29:50+00:00 l.m.orchard@pobox.com 2005-10-05T18:00:13+00:00 http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/05/acquisitions-20 <p>Wow, isn't this the week for acquisitions?</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="http://www.newsgator.com/NetNewsWire.aspx">NetNewsWire acquired by NewsGator</a>. (And, <a href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000683.html">the man with the drinks has more to say</a>.)</p> <p>Congratulations, Brent!</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/10/04/yahoo_an.shtml">Upcoming.org acquired by Yahoo!</a></p> <p>Congratulations, Andy, <a href="http://getluky.net/2005/10/05/yahoo-acquires-upcomingorg/">Gordon</a>, and <a href="http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4032">Leonard</a>!</p> <p>(<ins>Updated! I forgot the other guys at first post!</ins>)</p></li> </ul> <p>I'm not quite sure what to think about all of this yet, but it makes me wish I'd gotten one of my bright ideas launched. :) But, of course, it takes more than just an idea. It takes execution, timing, and hard work to get to where these guys are today.</p> <div id="comments" class="comments archived-comments"> <h3>Archived Comments</h3> <ul class="comments"> <li class="comment" id="comment-221084416"> <div class="meta"> <div class="author"> <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" href="http://dcortesi.com"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2bf25fd1da5ac49e094678a8c251a62f&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a> <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" href="http://dcortesi.com">Damon</a> </div> <a href="#comment-221084416" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-05T22:19:18">2005-10-05T22:19:18</time></a> </div> <div class="content"><p>In the security world, it looks like Symantec is buying Bindview too!</p></div> </li> </ul> </div>