June 27, 2012
Schooner got acquired by SanDisk
SanDisk has acquired my client Schooner Information Technology. Notes on that include:
- Schooner used to be a flash-based appliance company.
- Then Schooner pivoted to be a database software company with strong flash expertise.
- Then Schooner pivoted further to emphasize general modern OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) clustered goodness.
- SanDisk makes flash memory. That’s the fit.
- Specifically, Schooner is being put in the division that grew out of the acquisition of Pliant, which makes solid-state disks for database applications, and gets rave reviews from Teradata.
- Schooner had a few dozen customers, but not a lot of evident traction. Hence, I would imagine, the acquisition.
That’s about all I have at this time.
Categories: Market share and customer counts, Schooner Information Technology, Solid-state memory
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