How has LANDesks acquisition by Avocent changed the way LANDesk approaches the market?
I was with LANDesk when it was part of Intel. I left to do a startup just before the spinout. That startup was bought by Avocent and I went on to run corporate strategy. I was part of the team that decided to target the LANDesk acquisition. I have a unique perspective because of that. It’s made LANDesk relevant in the market from a size perspective. Avocent is over a half-a-billion dollar company. We bought some host intrusion prevention technology earlier this year that watches behavior on a laptop, and if it detects aberrant behavior, it blocks itinstead of trying to watch a pattern file. We wouldn’t have been able to do that if we weren’t a part of Avocent. We’ve also been able to increase our head count without disrupting the business we’re building managing the desktop. We’ve also started to leverage Avocent experience in the hardware space to wrap our technology in a hardware delivery mechanism. That was something we talked about doing at LANDesk. Without that expertise and suppl
