Comments on: Merger Announcement

By: Marisq Rondini

Marisq Rondini — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:49:47 +0000

It appears Affiniscape customers will be sunsetted onto the Your Membership platform. This is advantageous to Affinidcspe’s clients seeing how Your Memebrship is an infinitely better product. This also benefits Your Membership now they hsve one less competitor.

By: Larry Ward

Larry Ward — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:31:42 +0000

Tim, Your Membership is an infinitely better managed company. They were able to get rid of a competitor for cheap.

By: Wes Trochlil

Wes Trochlil — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:16:46 +0000

In reply to Tim. Good thoughts, Tim. I appreciate your perspective as someone on the "inside" of one of these deals.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:58:31 +0000

As a past employee at gomembers, I have some insight into acquisitions/mergers. During my time at gomembers, the company acquired several different AMS companies. While it looked good on paper and made for great conversation, our clients were hurt by these acquisitions. We ended up bleeding our client base because we could barely support one AMS solution let alone several different AMS solutions. I would add we had more than 200 employees and still couldn’t pull it off. The rest is history.

1. Will Yourmembership continue to support two different AMS solutions? The last time I checked both Affininscape and Yourmembership both served the small to midsized market.
2. If Yourmembership decides to phase out one solution, which solution goes away and what happens to the clients on that solution?
3. Will their clients be forced into an upgrade or lose support if they begin phasing out one product?

I think a merger with a company that compliments or fills a gap with the existing AMS product makes more sense (social media tool, CMS, LMS etc.).

By: Wes Trochlil

Wes Trochlil — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:22:07 +0000

In reply to Jeremy Barnes. You named Oracle three times. The exception that proves the rule. How about CDC Software, which spent the past three years acquiring countless software companies, including AMS companies, only to file for bankruptcy?

By: Jeremy Barnes

Jeremy Barnes — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:09:52 +0000

I am sure Oracle/PeopleSoft. Oracle/Siebel. Oracle/BEA Systems are failures…

By: Wes Trochlil

Wes Trochlil — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:47:35 +0000

In reply to Bill Murray. I didn't say I was against them, I said I'm skeptical of them, because they rarely work. The business world is riddled with software company merger failures.

By: Bill Murray

Bill Murray — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:41:00 +0000

What a surprise, Wes!! You are against mergers in the association space. I can tell you why: if one company dominates the space you’ll need to get a 8-5 job.