
You all know Oakley Capital…the folks who bought the formerly reasonably-priced software products cPanel, Plesk, and WHMCS.

You all know Oakley Capital…the folks who bought the formerly reasonably-priced software products cPanel, Plesk, and WHMCS.
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So true.
Yeah, for some reason I agree.
Venture capital has a neutral to neutral-bad reputation for a reason when it comes to how the underlying business they invest in evolves.