Events in the Packet World

SolarWinds Inc. hopes to raise $250 million in an initial public offering, according to regulatory filings.

The number of shares and the price range for the offering have not been determined for the Austin company.

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers Inc. will act as joint book-runners for the offering and UBS Securities LLC and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC will serve as co-managers.

below is the Solarwinds financial facts about recent 3 years

March 24, 2008 — Napatech today announced the investment of $5 million from Ferd Venture, Northzone Ventures and DTU Innovation. Napatech is the leader in programmable high speed Ethernet network adapters. The investment coincides with Napatech’s acquisition of the network adapter business of storage solution leader Xyratex.