Earlier this month, Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT) acquired Eurologic for $30 million in cash (see Adaptec Adopts Eurologic).
Gregor Knafelc, a spokesman for Hermes SoftLab in Slovenia, tells Byte and Switch that StorScape's product is still very much alive and in active development, with customers around the world.
"We have still operations in Slovenia it's 40-plus development engineers," he says. "We decided to buy StorScape because we're consolidating our product portfolio. We've fully merged it with our company."
According to Hermes SoftLab, customers that are using StorScape include Entech Enterprise Technologies, a Canadian systems integrator; NEC Corp. (Nasdaq: NIPNY); and Vzajemna, the largest private health insurance company in Slovenia, with more than 1 million subscribers. [Ed. note: That's even more than the number of subscribers to HBO Slovenia!]
But the vicissitudes surrounding StorScape are a reflection of the difficulties some SRM players are having gaining significant traction. BMC Software Inc. (NYSE: BMC) and StorageNetworks Inc. (Nasdaq: STOR) have shut down their SRM divisions in recent months. Startup ProvisionSoft Inc., meanwhile, is dangerously close to shutting its doors, if parent company CMGI Inc. can't find a buyer for it (see ProvisionSoft at Half-Staff, Arkivio Runs Out of Silver, StorageNetworks Hacks Self in Half, and BMC Folds Storage Unit).
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