Boeing to Sell Portions of Digital Aviation Solutions to Thoma Bravo for $10.55 Billion
- Agreement includes principles for data sharing and future collaborations to ensure continuity of operations under Thoma Bravo's ownership - Sale strengthens Boeing's capital structure and allows company to focus on core business, including key continued technical operations Boeing [NYSE: BA] has entered into a definitive agreement to sell portions of its Digital Aviation Solutions business, including its Jeppesen, ForeFlight, AerData and OzRunways assets, to Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. This all-cash transaction is valued at $10.55 billion. Boeing will retain core digital capabilities that harness both aircraft and fleet-specific data to provide commercial and defense customers with fleet maintenance, diagnostics and repair services. This digital expertise will continue to provide predictive and prognostic maintenance insights. "This transaction is an important component of our strategy to focus on core businesses, supplement the balance sheet and
RIP 18F, the group making gov IT more efficient :(
https://18f.org
18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet
For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers.
TFW you run ‘sudo grep’ on some log files and the only result is the log entry from sudo of you running the log grep
The number of times I’ve used telnet client to actually login with telnet is close to zero. The number of times I’ve used it for other shenanigans approaches infinity.
If you win the most medals in the olympics, does that make you Lord of the Rings?
Its official, “crowdstrike” is now a verb. As in: “Lets make sure we test this change thoroughly; I don’t want to crowdstrike our customers”.
Conservatives want to outlaw all-but-procreative sex so people will stop telling them to go fuck themsleves.
"Today is a good day for a computer to die" -- Klingon IT Helpdesk proverb
Greg Knauss
