{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/86/buyers-decide-at-deal-time-whether-to-merge-the-software", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 86, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/86/buyers-decide-at-deal-time-whether-to-merge-the-software", "kind": "update", "summary": "Buyers decide at deal time whether to merge the software they buy, and what the codebase allows shows up a year or two later.", "verbatim": null, "details": ["Constellation mostly does not merge. Mark Leonard's 2015 letter calls consolidation synergies a siren song, and the 2016 letter says Constellation does not sunset products.", "West Monroe puts the average platform merge at 6 to 9 months, and the long cases at 18 to 36.", "I compare a target's repositories with what the owner already runs. Where stacks match there is usually still a language or package ecosystem the owner's team has little experience in."], "links": ["https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brendancodykenny_buyers-decide-at-deal-time-whether-to-merge-share-7516479020558061569-qLNI"], "tags": ["due-diligence", "integration", "m-and-a"], "happened_on": "2026-10-15", "created": "2026-10-29T13:49:56.920409Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}