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It is. Because they are now a part if Idera, whose entire raison d'etre is to buy declining technologies and milk them for their licenses.

Among other notable acquisitions under Idera's belt: Sencha (ExtJS), Travis CI, Whole Tomato



That's Broadcom's strategy as well. They buy mature products, cut out the small customers, and try to cross-sell their large customers onto other parts of their portfolio. Seems to have worked for them, up 60% from pre-pandemic highs when they bought Symantec Enterprise.


MicroFocus is also in that kind of business




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