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Thanks so much Lora for printing our response ad nauseum. I'd like address the end commnet of your piece. Consolidation will of course have an effect in that it will remove smaller, independent open source firms and either apend them onto bigger, more well-known organizations or absorb them altogether and roll them up into existing business models as a means to reach a new audience. Regardless, the space is still relatively intimate in that everyone knows everyone else. As Palamida has been firmly focused on application security since mid 2007, we take a long view of consolidation and how that will translate into security offerings over time.
--best, Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale