There is just so much money floating around the market that I am devoting more and more time to VCs and other financial people looking for confirmation of their investment ideas as well as advice on how to put together complicated deals. Some of the ideas floating around are how to combine some of the older more established companies with some of the newer and more exciting technologies. So you leverage an established channel with a hot new technology.
Channel building takes years and this is a good strategy to play as it is something like arbitrage in the channel building space.