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[edit] Advertising!

This looks a lot like a press release.


Its July 2007 and the page is giving details about the company As of March 2007?? how come nobody bothered to update the page?

202.68.145.230 09:29, 11 July 2007 (UTC)$udhi :)

[edit] Neutral Point of View & Verification

I work for SunGard and I would like to start a conversation about certain sections of this page that I feel do not represent a neutral point of view. I am hoping that you will take a look at these sections and share your opinions. As I respect Wikipedia's conflict of interest policies, I will not make any changes to these sections unless we come to a consensus here.

Business Model
Sungard is essentially a profitable conglomerate, its software and processing business is cyclical, whereas Availability Services is counter cyclical, resulting in fairly consistent financial results. Sungard has been repeatedly criticized by analysts for an inability to grow organically and preserve the value of the acquired businesses. Very often after a short respite, SunGard makes savage cuts in R&D in acquired businesses and tries to cross-sell its other products to the customers of the acquired firm.
– I do not feel that this section adheres to the neutrality policy. Furthermore, these statements are opinion rather than fact and have not been sourced. Would it be possible to delete this section?
Formerly listed on the NYSE (ticker symbol SDS), on August 11, 2005 the company was acquired by a consortium of seven private equity investment firms in a transaction valued at $11.3 billion. The partners in the acquisition are Silver Lake Partners, Bain Capital, Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Providence Equity Partners, and Texas Pacific Group. There had been plans to separate the availability and processing businesses, but the new owners have not carried this forward.

The reason SunGard remained in one piece was because Availability Services was a very reliable revenue earner, and the consortium of private equity firms would not be interested in acquiring the less stable parts of SunGard (especially software and processing).

– The final sentence regarding the leveraged buyout is not neutral. Can it be deleted unless it can be verified?
Lapatterson (talk) 17:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Edit Requests

I would like to request the following edits be made to the SunGard Infobox.

–Industry should be "Enterprise Software & IT Services"
–Products should be "Software & IT Services"

Lapatterson (talk) 18:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I'd be happy to make those changes. Do you have a source for them? A specific page on the company's own website would be fine for this. SHEFFIELDSTEELTALK 16:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[1] - I'll go ahead and do it. Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 21:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for updating. Lapatterson (talk) 13:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)