Application integration company and IBM Corp partner New Era of Networks Inc (Neon) has dropped a poison pill which kicks in when someone buys a 15% chunk of its stock. Neon CFO Steve Webb told ComputerWire no specific event precipitated what companies like to call the shareholder right plan, but its board obviously think it a hot prospect right now. Neon, which lost its international president Kevin Scully to another partner, Candle Corp. It says it will replace him with a sales manager who will handle all overseas regions. Although Neon’s integration products are essentially agnostic to underlying messaging infrastructures the company has productized its suite for IBM Corp’s MQSeries asynchronous message queuing product.

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