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Tag: M&A

  • Vodafone news of the day

    Vodafone news of the day: The only deal that makes sense is to sell the whole of Vodafone to Verizon. That is obvious. The main people it does not make sense to are the Vodafone senior management. So I will suggest a solution for Mr Colao. The deal should be done with termination payments –…

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  • Buyout firms team up to take BMC Software private

    Exclusive: Buyout firms team up to take BMC Software private – sources: Private equity firms are joining forces in the auction of BMC Software Inc, four people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, making it more likely that the business software maker will be taken private in a deal that will top $6 billion.…

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  • Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

    Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. ManageIQ getting acquired was just a matter of time… although I didn’t contemplate as much who it’d be…

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  • VMware/EMC Spinning Out Greenplum et.al. into New Cloud Provider?

    What would tech news be without rumours and speculation? Anyway, this could make sense from multiple angles, be it risk mitigation or just a new setup that allows EMC and VMware each to focus on the core infra assets that they sell to the enterprise, and takes a lot of the other stuff into a…

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  • Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase

    Let the NoSQL Consolidation Wars begin: Membase and CouchOne merged to form Couchbase. In essence, Couchbase will be CouchDB with scale-out. Alternatively, Couchbase will be Membase with a richer programming interface. TechCrunch and GigaOm also report on the news.

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  • BMC Acquires GridApp

    Now I know why I kept this space open and didn’t post an article in the morning… BMC is swallowing GridApp. Just as I kinda predicted three months ago. We’ll have to wait and see what that means for the other vendors in the enterprise automation space.

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  • The Big 11 Tech Acquirers

    GigaOm recently did a Stat Shot: The Big 11 Tech Acquirers, distilling a Deutsche Bank report which also looked at what are the 50 likeliest targets for acquisitions by these 11 big guys. The bank’s Big 11 are: Apple, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm. Deutsche Bank report embedded below: Tech…

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  • IBM Netezza Update

    Analyst reactions to yesterday’s announcement of IBM acquiring Netezza are now coming in. Here’s Forrester’s Yuhanna on IBM Buying Netezza, Sending Clear Shot Across Oracle’s Bow, and there’s Curt Monash with Some thoughts on the announcement that IBM is buying Netezza. Curt also spells out that there’s a breakup fee of around 3%, meaning somebody…

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  • IBM to Acquire Netezza

    Another breaking one: IBM to acquire Netezza. Watch Google News IBM Netezza as this unfolds.

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  • Aster Data with new CEO

    Aster Data Appoints New Chief Executive Officer, and current CEO Mayank Bawa will become Chief Customer Officer. I guess every startup has to go through that transition when the founding CEO has to hand over to a more seasoned exec. Wonder if the real motivation is prepping the company to be acquired, after all Quentin…

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