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Review 2008: The Major Acquisitions Part 2|
- By Sonal Desai and Abhinna Shreshtha, Dec 30, 2008 1129 hrs IST
- Tags : Review, acquisitions, software as a service Saas , business intelligence BI , mergers and acquisitions, Cisco, Jabber, network, on premise, on demand, collaboration software group CSG , IOS network operating system, network and service management, un
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Technology vendors realized the importance of software as a service (Saas), and increasing demand for business intelligence (BI) while evaluating acquisition targets. In Part 2 of the series, we look at other major mergers and acquisitions of 2008.
Cisco-Jabber
Cisco s purchase of Jabber Inc., has given the company the ability to embed presence and messaging services in the network and provide aggregation capabilities to users through both on-premise and on-demand solutions, across multiple platforms.
Jabber is a provider of presence and messaging software. Following the transaction, Jabber has become a part of the Collaboration Software Group (CSG). CSG is part of the software group, consisting major software businesses, including the IOS network operating system, network and service management, unified communications solutions, policy management, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.
SAP-Business Objects
The year kicked off with a bang in the M&A space with a takeover between two if the technology industry s biggest brands. SAP s acquisition of Business Objects was soon followed by slate of joint product offerings and operational intelligence for companies worldwide. The total value of the deal (taking into account transaction costs) was a little above 4.8 billion euros.
Microsoft - Fast Search & Transfer
Companies combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalize on the power of enterprise search. Microsoft had announced it intention to acquire Fast on January 8, 2008
While we are on Microsoft, it did make a bid to acquire Yahoo! On February 1. But the offer fell flat.
Sun-MySQL
On January 16, 2008, Sun Microsystems, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market.
Brocade-Foundry
The combination of Brocade and Foundry is seen as a direct effort to combat Cisco with a broader data center product collection, exploiting Brocade's strength in storage networking and Foundry's powerful routers.
Symantec-MessageLabs
The acquisition gives Symantec an alternative e-mail security offering to BrightMail, the company's antispam and antivirus appliance. MessageLabs offers a hosted spam and Web traffic filtering service.
HP-LeftHand Networks
HP said in November it would buy LeftHand to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for midsize companies and remote offices and branches. The Boulder, Colo., company was an early developer of SANs built around iSCSI. It sells software that runs on existing storage and industry-standard server platforms.
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