 was announced in late 2015, and by January 2016, SolarWinds was taken into private ownership in a $4.5 billion deal.As of the sale, the company employed 1,770 people worldwide of which 510 were based in Austin and reported revenues of about half a billion dollars a year.In November 2017, SolarWinds released AppOptics which integrates much of the SolarWinds acquired software portfolio, including Librato and TraceView, into a single software-as-a-service package.