A return to the public stage

Licensing solution providers (LSP) are dying out, or so claimed Rune Syversen, founder of software specialist Crayon, when we spoke to him last year. Syversen is adamant that the industry will be boiled down to just a handful of major players as a result of the impending M&A "bloodshed" that will ravage the LSP sector in the years to come. Under private ownership for the best part of the past five years, equity firm Norvestor has more than doubled Crayon's headcount and ploughed NOK 280...