I have been an engineer on the Log Insight team since prior to VMware acquisition (which happened 10 months ago -- see http://cto.vmware.com/vmware-acquires-log-insight-technology...).

To make it interesting to the Hacker News crowd, I can provide some insights into how our acquisition went -- from a small startup to launching the product at a huge company with a large sales team.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, etc.