The Ashimmy Blog: Has Cisco taken Rohati back into the fold?

January 05, 2010

Has Cisco taken Rohati back into the fold?

This is the time of year for M&A deals. No I am not talking about the analyst deals of the last few days (but good luck to all of the Securosis-itcs). Not sure how the Gartner-Burton Group will shake out. Is
Gartner getting into the consulting business? But here is one rumor I heard today on good authority, but am trying to get more confirmation on: Cisco has acquired Rohati.

Who is Rohati you ask? Well I originally wrote about them back in June of 2008. My friend Richard Stiennon thought that they were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then when Tom Noonan was appointed to their board, I had a chance to have Tom on the podcast with Mitchell and I.

Rohati was founded by a bunch of ex-Cisco folks and I always felt that eventually Cisco would take them back into the fold. If my information pans out, that may be just he case. I am very curious to see if this was a move to save what Rohati had developed (see my earlier posts for that) or did Rohati fetch a nice multiple for their founders and investors.

It would be good to see the year get off to some good acquisitions, at good multiples! If anyone knows anything, please speak up!