Mood:  not sure

http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/webservices/story/0,10801,108184,00.html

Dow Corning Corp. purchased Systinet 2.0 in December and plans to have it in production by the end of February, said Kris Zywicki, enterprise architect at the Midland, Mich.-based company. Over the past two years, Dow Corning has built about 250 Web services, creating a services layer in its architecture that is "very unmanaged," Zywicki said. "The point here is to organize the environment for it to be more controllable," he explained. "Systinet provides a complete environment for the metadata management ... for a centralized approach to visibility." 

'A very interesting play.'

HP 

Mercury buys registry maker Systinet

By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

January 9, 2006 

http://news.com.com/Mercury+buys+registry+maker+Systinet/2100-7345_3-6024366.html

HP snaps up Mercury Interactive

By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

July 25, 2006

http://news.com.com/HP+snaps+up+Mercury+Interactive/2100-1014_3-6098351.html

 update Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday that it will acquire management software company Mercury Interactive for $52 a share, or $4.5 billion in cash.

 Maybe NOW we'll get an idea how much one of those things costs.

Corporate malfeasance

From 4 January 2006, until its purchase by Hewlett-Packard, Mercury was been traded via Pink Sheets as a result of being delisted from the NASDAQ due to noncompliance with filing requirements^[1]. This situation occurred as a result of Mercury having to restate financial results due to improprieties by executive management regarding stock options backdating. The executive officers who precipitated the delisting, Chief Executive Officer Amnon Landan, Chief Financial Officer Douglas Smith, and General Counsel Susan Skaer, resigned on November 2, 2005 when it became known that these officers were aware of, and participated in, the manipulation of stock options purchase dates on 49 occasions between 1995 and 2004. In addition to these manipulations, the Chief Executive Officer, Amnon Landan, misreported personal stock option exercise dates to increase his profit on transactions three times between 1998 and 2001. Other improprieties on Amnon Landan's part include a 1 million dollar personal loan in 1999, which was not authorized by the board of directors, and was not clearly disclosed in the company's filings with the SEC. The company is under new management.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive

 Yup? Got the yips yet?

And curiouser.

http://www.motive.com/newsevents/pressreleases/pr.asp?id=5082

Mercury Interactive and Motive Sign Agreement to Extend Business Technology Optimization Leadership

$15 Million Licensing Deal To Bolster Mercury Interactive's Next Generation Application Management Offerings

 About Motive

Motive is the leading provider of service management software for Global 1000 businesses. The Motive xi Service Management Suite enables companies to deliver and support a new class of automated, smart services that have enormous impact on business process success and customer satisfaction. Motive’s technology and approach to smart services has been proven by market leaders such as 3Com, Bell Canada, BellSouth, British Telecommunications, cablecom, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hyperion, Microsoft Business Solutions, NTL, SBC Communications, Telewest, TELUS, Time Warner Cable, VERITAS Software, and Verizon in more than 25 million implementations worldwide. Motive was founded in May 1997 and is backed by leading venture capital firms and private investors. For more information, visit www.motive.com.

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Posted by Portuno Diamo at 11:59 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, 8 April 2007 12:30 AM EDT

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