It seems to have been a very busy period for those acquisition lawyers (they are obviously hoping for a good quarter 
). Some of these purchases have the potential to significantly change the IT landscape. Here are the ones that I have noticed:
- 2nd Jan – IBM to acquire XIV
- 3rd Jan – NetApp to acquire Onaro
- 8th Jan – Microsoft to acquire Fast Search and Transfer
- 15th Jan – VMware to acquire Thinstall
- 18th Jan – Sun to acquire MySQL
- 18th Jan – IBM to acquire Net Integration Technologies
- 21st Jan – Microsoft to acquire Calista
And that’s not including the spate of acquisitions at the end of 2007, including IBM’s purchase of Cognos.
All of these things take a while to work there way through, but there are some interesting moves ahead.
(Seems a bit ironic to be writing this as stock markets around the world are tumbling – but that’s the way it goes sometimes.)
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I’ll be interested to see not just the quick wins but the long term strategy. The mySQL is most interesting simply due to the number of solutions utilising mySQL and the whole open source model.
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