Matt Light
Matt Light
Matthew Charles "Matt" Lightis a former American football offensive tackle who spent his entire eleven-year career playing for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He played college football for Purdue University. He was picked by the Patriots in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth23 June 1978
CityGreenville, OH
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Prior to the acquisition, the lack of a PPM solution represented a significant gap in Borland's line of applications to support IT and application development management. The Tempo product is a key integration point for drawing Borland products together into an IT management application.
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PPM remains a dynamic and volatile market, with new vendors taking innovative approaches to PPM and multiple recent acquisitions.
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The IDE products have consistent revenue but it's a very low margin business. There's a big upside for Borland if they can succeed in software delivery optimization, and these other areas, which is a much higher margin; you're selling to enterprise IT management rather than to individuals and resellers.