Michel Demaré, Syngenta's chairman, said the takeover did not mean Syngenta would now be controlled by the Chinese government and that ChemChina, which has been on an acquisition spree, understood the importance of giving businesses autonomy.
"We do not see any of these having the strategic imperative/intention to pursue a business like Autonomy," Adam Wood, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, wrote in a research note.
"We do not see any of these having the strategic imperative/intention to pursue a business like Autonomy," said Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Wood.
"We believe that the tradeoff of centralized control and 100percentt ownership is worth it for the business independence, autonomy, talent recruitment, and value opportunities that exist at the business unit level".
This follows HPE's decision to sell off (or "spin-merge" in HPE's own language) its software business (including Autonomy, which HP bought for $11 billion, followed by a $9 billion write-off) to Micro Focus.
And they seem, more than their European neighbors, to have learned from missteps and become better able to balance the need in financial businesses between autonomy and control.
However, Mike Lynch, who made £500m from selling his Autonomy business to Hewlett Packard five years ago, was more upbeat.
According to contemporary and subsequent accounts, John Tishman, who was running the construction part of the business, wanted more autonomy.
