This morning, we announced that AirWave has agreed to merge with Aruba Networks. We expect this to be great news for our customers. Our mission remains absolutely unchanged: to develop the premier multi-vendor management software that allows our customers to operate and support their wireless networks.

Aruba is fully committed to operating AirWave as a business unit focused on developing and providing multi-vendor management software. The AirWave software will simply get better, because we’re going to have the resources of a larger organization behind us – and we expect this will enable us to add support for even more hardware vendors. Supporting the leading hardware vendors that our customers choose is critical to everything we do.

We believe in open, standards-based technology – and in giving every customer the freedom to choose the products that best meet their specific requirements. Aruba believes exactly the same thing… and that’s why this combination makes so much sense to us.

I’ve spoken with and emailed a number of AirWave customers this morning and have been very touched that many so people’s first questions have been, “What does this mean for AirWave employees? Is everyone going to be OK?”. First… I want to thank everyone for their concern for the people they’ve built relationships with over the past several years. I also want to reassure everyone that this transaction is a very good thing for the people of AirWave – AirWave’s employees are being kept together as a team and will operate as business unit. This will provide us the additional resources we need to develop even more interesting applications in the future.

From a customer perspective, nothing changes. You should call the same support number, talk to the same people, log into the same user forum… We’re here to help, and if you have any questions, just give us a call.