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In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analyt
by netcan 17y ago
In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analytics.
That's huge. Does that sound right?
- iamelgringo 17y agoThat doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know if it counts, but the Sun deal was around $9.2 billion, wasn't it?
- netcan 17y agoI wouldn't have thought that counts.
- shrikant 17y ago$15bn actually sounds conservative to me (I'm in the business intelligence space). Yep, check out http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidations.htm http://www.bi-verdict.com/fileadmin/FreeAnalyses/consolidati... EDIT: And that table doesn't even include IBM's billion-dollar SPSS grab.
- david927 17y agoWouldn't it be smarter to use a couple million of that to create a seed fund for aspiring technologies?
- dagw 17y agoWhy not do both? The major disadvantage with the seed fund approach is that you have no idea what you'll get out of it or how long it will take. If you but SPSS, it might cost you more, but you know exactly what you're getting and when you'll be getting it, which is a huge advantage if you feel you're in a hurry.
- david927 17y agoBy "a couple million out of that [15 billion]," I meant both.