Praesidium
Issues Letter to TIBCO's Board of Directors
NEW YORK, June 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Praesidium Investment Management Company, LLC ("Praesidium" or "we") on
behalf of its clients, beneficially owns approximately 5.5 million shares
of TIBCO Software Inc. ("TIBCO" or the "Company"), and today sent the
following letter to TIBCO's Board of Directors. Praesidium has a
long-term, multi-year investment horizon and frequently interacts with
management teams and boards of directors to propose constructive strategic
ideas.
June 11, 2014
Board of Directors
TIBCO Software Inc.
3307 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Dear Members of the Board
of Directors:
On
May 20, 2014, we delivered to you an extensive, detailed letter
that provided our analysis and steps we believe the Board should take
to maximize shareholder value. We are writing to make you aware that
we plan to provide this analysis and our views to other TIBCO
shareholders, potential acquirers, and other related parties. We
intend to continue to actively engage the Board and assist it in
exploring value enhancing ideas for the benefit of all the Company's
owners.
Praesidium has
significant experience investing in the enterprise software space with
software companies typically comprising 30-40% of our portfolio. We
perform deep, grass roots research on every investment we make and
have done an extensive analysis of every major TIBCO business line.
Based on our research, we believe that TIBCO has a unique collection
of valuable assets and industry leading technology, with products in
some of the fastest-growing areas of software, such as data discovery,
analytics, and complex event processing. However, we also see a
company that is currently falling far short of its significant
potential, resulting in what we see as a material disconnect between
the high strategic value of TIBCO's technology and the price of
TIBCO's stock in the public market.
We believe there is a
substantial opportunity to unlock value at TIBCO and we look forward
to a constructive dialogue with the Board on ways to achieve this.
The Board should trust that as fiduciaries of our clients' capital we
will do what is necessary to ensure that shareholder value is
maximized at TIBCO.
Best Regards,
Praesidium
Investment Management Company, LLC |
/s/
Kevin Oram |
|
/s/
Peter Uddo |
Kevin
Oram |
|
Peter
Uddo |
Managing Director |
|
Managing Director |
SOURCE Praesidium
Investment Management Company, LLC
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