M5 sells out to the Merchants of Death

This is fantastic news! Congratulations to M5, all that hard work has paid off.

Your average person has no idea how much dedication, hard work and flat out intellect is required to pull off this sort of deal.

Canberrans/Australians should be proud that a local company could produce technology capable of capturing the eye of a global defence leader. This is excellent news.

So the M5 has been sold to another company. I hope the toll doesn’t increase or I’ll have to start taking the Murrays coach to Sydney.

Seems a lot of the big companies are moving in for a slice of the IT market here.

Only just had CSG Professional Services bought by NEC (After being owned by ipex, volante, commander and of course CSG) and Lockheed Martin muscling into canberra for their slice of the pie (with a fancy new building out at Kingston).

I wouldn’t paint Northrop as being the only ‘merchant of death’. Just about any major corporation has their finger in something directly or indirectly involved in finding better ways of making people into puddles of flesh.