Elliott Management offers to acquire Compuware for $2.3B

**DetroitPlanner** · December-17-12, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by East Detroit

Sandell is pretty demanding with their 2.5%.

Employees own much, much more.

Fuck you, Sandell. And fuck you, Elliott Mgt. Greedy assholes both.

LOL maybe I should write a letter saying its a raw deal? I have 400 shares, what is that about 0.0000025 percent?

I'll give my votes to either Archer or Karmanos.

**JBMcB** · December-17-12, 11:22 PM

Hmmm.. vulture fund? Let's see - Compuware icome is down $120 million this year off of revenue of $1 billion. They're spending a lot of money on something.

Honestly I haven't heard of anyone using Compuware software aside from Covisint, or their QA testing tools [[one of which they sold off)

Looking at their product portfolio, none of them, aside from Covisint, are in growth areas. Companies are moved to virtualized and cloud infrastructures. Compuware, until very recently, specialized in mainframe software. Mainframes will have holdouts in some sectors, but you aren't going to gain any customers in that sector.