ANTs Software Inc. (fka ANTS)

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These were the reasons Joe gave to shareholders for the sale of the ADS.

"The high performance DB market continues to decline as hardware performance increases.
TimesTen and Solid Technologies, two companies with high performance DB products were acquired by Oracle and IBM respectively. The purchase price in each case was well below ANTs’ current market cap. With those comparables in place it would have been difficult for ANTs to achieve a high market valuation based on an ADS product alone.
Expense reduction of $2-3 million per year
We can now focus all resources on the ANTs Compatibility Server."

No matter how unique the technology, it all comes down to cost benefit. I think we can sell enough of just the ADS to pay our bills, but really feel like there's something else at work here. What if the reason ADS sales never seemed to take off goes back to the migration headache. Well voila!, have we got an answer for you. But besides the possible ADS/ACS combination(now the following assumes Doc is still actively involved) I wonder if Ants wanted the Sullivan patents back for other reasons. Curious about what Frank might be able to parlay those into. It would be nice to know for a fact that the ADS and accompanying patents are back in Ants hands.