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rhplus on June 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer

Some features of Lync came in part from the Parlano acquisition in 2007:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2007/aug07/08-29Pa...

gadders on June 26, 2012 [–]

Interesting to think that Parlano started as an in-house java chatroom/im tool at UBS (the big Swiss bank).

I wonder if any of the team from UBS that were spun off made any money from the acquisition.

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