Fire Department software vendors have been bought up by Private Equity. The fallout is pretty much as you would expect.

I worked in local government for a while, so I worked with law enforcement software a great deal. There was this employee owned company named BullBerry which made a mapping system for dispatch offices that was top notch. Great support and flawless application/server environment. One day I got wind that some upstart company was trying to break in to the law enforcement software arena and decided to rip off the entire BullBerry sweet and sell it as their own. At some point I heard BullBerry started the litigation process, but it was halted when Zeurker offered to buy them out. The sale went through and it sounded like everyone got a big payout and left to find better work. As you could imagine updates came to a grinding halt and support tanked because nobody knew how anything worked. Around this time the county I was working for switched to a new Records Management System called LETG. It was a slow grind getting their apps to work with the state of Minnesota, but eventually it worked out. Then Zeurker came lurking and offered to buy them up as well. The sale went through and the county I worked for ditched them because the Zeurker support was... lacking and their track record in the state could be described as mediocre at best from what I hear. I say all that to point out that if the dollar amount is high enough, everyone sells. Just look at Dell selling off VMware to Broadcom who promptly destroyed the product.