Shouty investor Elliott looms over software veteran Informatica

Elliott Management, the activist investor with its hooks into EMC, appears to have settled on Informatica as its next likely target for shareholder gains glory. It's the usual deal of building a holding (eight per cent in this case), analysing the company's business, speaking to the board, and then writing a letter to …

[Richard Taylor 2]

When they get hold of it it doesn't have a chance of staying 'profitable' over a reasonable timescale. Sell now before you get screwed if you are a small shareholder. As capital is generally no longer raised through these markets, they have descended into a means of making money through speculation not value.

[Mark 85]

Let the feeding frenzy begin anew....

I'm sure (or I hope, at least) those on the board and all the way down to the janitor at Informatica can see what's coming. Like everything else these leeches...err.. activists get their talons into, it'll not be pretty and what will be left will be left to die.