(with apologies to jwz)

Ciber Acquires FullTilt Solutions

After three wonderful days of employment, I’m now an employee of Ciber. According to management, nothing is going to change for us, since we all work on profitable projects for large clients. There’s obviously a lot of grumbling in the office, and people are concerned, but I’ve got other things to worry about. Plus, Ciber has such a large army of Java programmers that if things at this office went downhill, I could always move within the company. The good news is that the office will stay downtown, rather than moving to Ciber’s Pittsburgh office in Forest Hills, and the management at the office will stay on, though there will be a general manager from Ciber installed. These guys have been through a couple of acquisitions, and they’ve managed to keep things pretty stable at the office, so I’m not terribly worried at the moment.

Update

Dave pointed out this spelling mistake (I hope) in the Ciber press release I linked to above about the acquisition:

?CIBER is adding approximately 100 employees, approximately 70 percent of which are in Philadelphia. The new operations represent approximately $15 million in annualized revenue and are expected to add approximately one cent to CIBER?s earning in 2004,? according to David Durham, CIBER?s Chief Financial Officer.

Great to know we can add $0.01 to Ciber’s earnings this year. Heck, they could probably take the soda machine out of the break room and add more to their earnings this year.

Posted on 26 January 2004