Tripwire announced today that AirTran uses them for PCI. Here is a link to the article AirTran Airways Selects Tripwire Enterprise for Continuous Data Center Compliance The press release title is just marketing fluff, if you jump into the article it says the bought it for PCI. It is also interesting that ArcSight announced AirTran as a customer for PCI also which is using their system. Why would a customer buy both if Tripwire met all the requirements?
Solidcore’s PCI customers like Convergys, don’t need to use anything else across network, databases and servers for the PCI requirements.
October 2nd, 2007
The word on the street says that Tripwire has been talking to potential suitors again. One set of negotiations were really close to a deal, or atleast offers were made, but the numbers were too far apart and talks stalled.
I was talking to an M&A professional recently and they said everyone wants their deal priced on the Opsware/HP multiples and valuations and that is just not realistics for most market segments, as they are not hyper-growth segments.
Then I read a press release from Tripwire today which has them re-positioning themselves or what seems like a re-position to “Continuous Data Center Compliance” … and it makes you wonder whether it is an effort to reposition into the Data Center space from the compliance space.
October 2nd, 2007
