Accedo CEO Michael Lantz cuts through the noise and gets straight to the point, telling Faultline that the Swedish software supplier’s acquisition of UK-based Easel TV is not a deal borne out of must-have intellectual property, or to stifle an emerging threat to its business, but rather an inevitability of consolidation facing the media and entertainment sector. “Either you develop new technology, or you buy it,” Lantz digresses. “There are too many vendors of this type. We acknowledge this. We have a sizable UK footprint and there are obvious operational synergies.” Recognizing that many video app development rivals are rooted in pay TV with little room for maneuver once the roof caves in, Easel TV’s radically simplified CMS dashboard and…