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Re:Qlik acquired by Thoma Bravo for $3B by parasubvert on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:05PM (#11826052)
Qlik is one of the major data visualization tools like Tableau.

This is part of a trend of activist investors and/or private equity taking companies private because the Street has unrealistic expectations.

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Re:Qlik acquired by Thoma Bravo for $3B by mark_integerdsv on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:16AM (#11853103)
Interesting, could you point to some other examples or otherwise expand a bit on this please?

I work in the field and I'm currently looking at choosing software, this info might be very important in these decisions.

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