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Monday, April 10, 2006 |
Jim Pinto's latest newsletter has a couple of interesting articles. His observations about what happens when small companies sell out hit home. I've been through that a couple of times. I also appreciated his article on David Goodman and his theory of Mental Chronomics. I've seen other studies of the rhythms of the brain and this fits. It also fits my self-observations. I also try to avoid as many drugs as possible (I took a sinus pill today, just couldn't work out the pain, but I'm down to one every six months or so instead of almost daily for a while, and that's the strongest stuff I take).
I'll avoid any comment on his reports of Invensys buy out rumors since I'm en route to Boston for a big Invensys announcement. Any company of Invensys's size is certainly a target for takeover talk. Since GE already has Intellution, don't see that they'd want to by Wonderware. Siemens has its own process platform and software. If they bought it, the only purpose would be to put a rival out of business. That doesn't make a lot of sense. There aren't a lot of fits, in my mind. But then, if I knew everything, I'd be retired on my own private island ;-)
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ZigBee wireless sensor network silicon and tool supplierEmber is moving from the engineer/entrepreneur phase to the professional management phase of business growth with the hiring of Robert LeFort as the new chief executive officer, announced today. He replaces venture capitalist (and Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder) Bob Metcalf, who remains chairman.
LeFort told me that this is an exciting time for the company. "We've gone from research and development to ramping up marketing activity. Ember is positioned well with a few products that work nicely together with software, chips, tools and ecosystem. Ember also has a first class group of people. The challenge now is prioritizing all the opportunities and tackling the appropriate markets."
ZigBee's first applications have been in the building climate control retrofit business. LeFort notes that industrial automation is a conservative industry typically slow to adopt new technologies. Ember will continue to pursue that market slowly while capitalizing on faster growing market segments.
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