that's bring in bloomberg's wall street reporter, sally bassett -- should ali -- sonali.onali: we have heard, and i had a conversation earlier with vista's president, that told us that they were looking at public companies. that valuation drop you saw, remember that the company itself was $164 just in january. the high was re-hundred $69. you are seeing another company really winning the deal to buy this company for $81 per share. this is after a string of deals. you are seeing traditional software and technology investors really rushing to the market to capitalize at a time when valuations have come down. i will say something interesting about this is not just the deal itself. remember, the software companies are in high demand this year, especially from the likes of these companies, who were also in talks to buy this company. there are also private creditors interested in financing these deals in a tough market. why? it is because they do these credit deals on the back of recurring revenue. these sticky clients, these recurring revenue deals have become very popular lat