MapNSoft merging with other Hyundai Software companies

[Richard Mississauga]

I just got this email. What do you all think?

Hyundai MnSOFT New Merger: Transfer of Personal Information Hello Richard, Thank you for keeping your car up-to-date with the Hyundai MnSOFT software. As of April 1, 2021, we would like to announce the merger of Hyundai MnSOFT Co., Hyundai AutoEver Co., and Hyundai Autron Co. The company name after the merger will be Hyundai AutoEver Co. Accordingly, for the continuous and smooth service provision of your Hyundai MnSOFT software, personal information, history of service use, and all rights and obligations on this website will be transferred as follows: [Company Transferring Personal Information] Name: Hyundai Autoever Co. Address: 10550 Talbert Ave, 3rd Floor, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 Phone number: 1-888-757-0010 Your personal information will only be used within the same scope of purpose as before, and will be protected in accordance with the technical and administrative protections prescribed by the relevant statutes. If you do not wish to transfer your personal information, you may opt-out by following the information in this link below. Remove account: Regarding Your Personal Information Opt-out of promotional email: Hyundai MnSOFT Inc.

 

[EdP]

I just got this email. What do you all think?

Hyundai MnSOFT New Merger: Transfer of Personal Information Hello Richard, Thank you for keeping your car up-to-date with the Hyundai MnSOFT software. As of April 1, 2021, we would like to announce the merger of Hyundai MnSOFT Co., Hyundai AutoEver Co., and Hyundai Autron Co. The company name after the merger will be Hyundai AutoEver Co. Accordingly, for the continuous and smooth service provision of your Hyundai MnSOFT software, personal information, history of service use, and all rights and obligations on this website will be transferred as follows: [Company Transferring Personal Information] Name: Hyundai Autoever Co. Address: 10550 Talbert Ave, 3rd Floor, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 Phone number: 1-888-757-0010 Your personal information will only be used within the same scope of purpose as before, and will be protected in accordance with the technical and administrative protections prescribed by the relevant statutes. If you do not wish to transfer your personal information, you may opt-out by following the information in this link below. Remove account: Regarding Your Personal Information Opt-out of promotional email: Hyundai MnSOFT Inc.

Hopefully it is a good think to have one group responsible for everything and have it all work together. Just got the email a few minutes ago and here I thought you were special getting it before me.

 

[Richard Mississauga]

Geeze Ed, I am special! At least I think so.

As far as my experience takes me, (I have been here and done this before) this type of consolidation will be good for Genesis and Hyundai in the long term. This sort of merger of similar software companies usually means the the various moving parts will be brought to ta single code base, and therefore require less support overall. Less Developers and less testers for EACH part means that it should result in more developers and more testers for the newly consolidated base. IT's an economy of scale. That is a good thing, but takes time to achieve.

In the near term, it means nothing to use as end users, as it is primarily a business decision for now. The danger is that Hyundai moves too quickly to consolidate and economize without ensuring ongoing support for those parts which will be phased out as they are migrated together. I think Hyundai is a big enough company to not make that mistake, but it is only a guess.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!