VMware: a ‘table-clearing’ bid for the clouds

Posted by on August 13, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly About a year and a half after Paul Maritz got picked up by EMC, the former Microsoft honcho has struck his signature deal for his new employers. When EMC reached for Pi Corp, which had yet to release a product, we figured the move was basically ‘HR by M&A.’ And that has [...]

EMC and advisors: All or nothing

Posted by on August 11, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly After EMC doled out no fewer than nine credits to different banks for working on its acquisition of Data Domain, we were curious how the deal credits would flow around the largest-ever purchase by EMC subsidiary VMware. (The unusually long list of advisers for EMC on Data Domain made us think – [...]

Intalio gets its rollup rolling

Posted by on May 27, 2009

Contact: Dennis Callaghan Intalio’s open source rollup has finally started to roll. The company recently took the wraps off a deal it actually did earlier this month, picking up open source CRM software vendor CodeGlide. The acquirer, which has raised some $45m in venture funding, said earlier this year that it planned to do as [...]

Back-of-the-envelope thinking on Red Hat-Oracle

Posted by on March 27, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly If Oracle was seriously planning a bid for Red Hat (and we have our doubts about such a pairing), then Larry Ellison had better be prepared to reach deeper into his pocket. Following Red Hat’s solid fiscal fourth-quarter report, shares of the Linux giant jumped 17% to $17.60 on Thursday. That added [...]

Oracle M&A: real and rumored

Posted by on March 25, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly Since 2005, Oracle has notched an average of about an acquisition per month each year. Generally speaking, the deals can be sorted into three main buckets: broad horizontal technology purchases, small technology tuck-ins and equally small purchases of companies selling applications for specific industries. Fittingly for a busy buyer, Oracle has one [...]

A (Big) Blue-colored Sun?

Posted by on March 18, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly Just two days after Cisco took the fight to its longtime allies in the server wars, IBM is now looking to buy some ammunition of its own. Big Blue is reportedly mulling a $6.5bn bid for Sun Microsystems, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal would be the largest tech transaction [...]

Microsoft’s ‘paper’ trail leads to Citrix?

Posted by on September 24, 2008

Shares of Citrix jumped 5% Wednesday on reheated rumors that Microsoft may be bidding for its longtime partner. Volume in Citrix shares was about 50% heavier than average. One source indicated that Microsoft would be paying $36 for each Citrix share, which is essentially where Citrix started the year. This rumor, of course, has made [...]

A battlefield Exchange

Posted by on September 5, 2008

As the world’s largest and richest software company, Microsoft gets a lot of targets hung on it. Companies of all sizes are drawing a bead on Microsoft, whether it’s a startup looking to undercut or outperform one product or a fellow tech giant deciding Microsoft is making too damn much money on some particular line [...]

Architects of the new Web

Posted by on July 17, 2008

Since 2004, Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos (through his personal investment fund Bezos Expeditions) have been banking big on Web services infrastructure companies. This week, Amazon.com participated in a $15m VC investment in San Francisco-based Engine Yard. Founded in 2006, Engine Yard hosts software that enables enterprises to build and manage open source Ruby [...]

M&A cycles in France

Posted by on July 3, 2008

 Our colleague Matt Aslett recently hit on an incredibly creative and entertaining series of posting on our sister blog CAOS Theory pegged to Euro 2008. He profiled the open source projects and policies in the 16 countries that took part in that soccer (errr, football) tournament. (A Brit, Aslett found himself with a fair amount [...]

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