Acquisitions

As if Microsoft hasn’t been big enough. This public multinational corporation, that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services, mostly related to computing, wants to be even stronger. That is the reason why it made another acquisition. As it announced on Wednesday, it bought AVIcode, a Maryland-based company that monitors the performance of online applications and services, is operating since 1998, AVIcode, leading provider of application monitoring solutions, with its award-winning technology and innovative products was designed to protect software investments by simplifying maintenance and troubleshooting. Microsoft said this! Baltimore-based and a privately held company will become wholly-owned subsidiary. Brad Anderson, Microsoft corporate vice president wrote in his blog post, that AVIcode technology will help to provide understanding of an application’s performance and quality and its software has already been integrated into such Microsoft services such as Xbox Live. But what would it mean for Microsoft’s customers? According to Anderson, this acquisition will provide higher quality of services. It will provide “access to a new set of capabilities to help you keep those business-critical datacenter applications and services up and running.” he said. By the words of Mike Curreri, AVIcode chief executive, both firms “share common vision about the evolution of application performance management and monitoring.” As he added with modesty: “With AVIcode technology, thousands of users worldwide have dramatically reduced the time required to diagnose and r! esolve application problems.” If you were interested in ! financia l terms of this transaction, I will have to disappoint you, they were not disclosed!

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