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Ask HN: Do technology choices affect acquisitions?

6 points by jtseng ↗ HN
We're choosing our technology stack for our rewrite and would like to know if this choice will affect our chances of acquisition. We're comfortable in a few stacks (RoR, Django, and ASP.NET). Has anyone missed an acquisition because of their choice of technology?

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Irishsteve
Depends on who is acquiring you. I was told a online retailer had a significant bias towards java startups because they could intergrate it easier.
mlieberm
When we were acquired the stack wasn't too much of a concern. What was a potential issue was open-source libraries that did not have the appropriate licensing.
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rgovind
I friend told me that Google wasn't acquired by MS because Google fully ran on windows...and integrating would have been costly. Dunno how true it is. In your case, , you should consider how much it would cost acquiring company to rewrite your code on their stack.