Any word on what happened to storage resource management startup ProvisionSoft Inc.? (See ProvisionSoft at Half-Staff.)
Andover and Out
Dear Andy,
Yeah it's dead. Turns out ProvisionSoft's parent, CMGI, couldn't find a buyer (supposedly they were asking $8 million), and the company shut down effective April 30. The 16 remaining employees are all out of work. Bummer! CMGI will also seek to sell off the equipment in the million-dollar SAN the startup had installed in its lab.
Apparently there have been a few nibbles from some big names for ProvisionSoft's intellectual property, but we'll see if anybody actually bites. "That product kicked ass," says one former ProvisionSoftee. "I hope it won't just die away." ProvisionSoft actually did have one customer, but it uninstalled the software in April after it became clear the company wasn't long for this world. Better luck next time, guys.
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