| M&A prospects in the world of open source content management
There was an open source angle to Adobe's recent pickup of Day Software, but it wasn't the primary driver and Adobe clearly didn't choose a pure open source target. Who will?
TDM/ Sector IQ, 9 Sep 2010
Kathleen Reidy
China Martens Fat cat bankers? More like alley cat bankers, at least at boutiques
The low end of the M&A market was once a fairly profitable area for advisory firms. But with fewer mandates available and new boutiques popping up all the time, competition is sharper than ever. Some firms may not survive the scratching and clawing.
TDM/ Banking Landscape, 8 Sep 2010
Brenon Daly Taleo buys partner Learn.com to widen the scope of its talent management suite
The SaaS talent management firm has turned to M&A again to help it enter a new market, a year since its last purchase won it a foothold in compensation management. Taleo sees its Learn.com buy as providing the fourth missing piece of its TM suite.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 2 Sep 2010
China Martens
Brenon Daly Fluke Networks forms Visual Network Systems to target APM space
The company has formed a new subsidiary entity, Visual Network Systems, from three of its previous acquisitions to focus on network-based application performance management.
TDM/ Post-Merger IQ, 2 Sep 2010
Dennis Callaghan VMware acquires TriCipher for consolidated end-user access management hub
It's no longer business as usual in the identity management world. There's work ahead, but TriCipher's hub-and-spoke architecture will provide the foundation for an end-user access layer in VMware's coalescing platform.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 1 Sep 2010
Steve Coplan Integrien releases VMware-specific product one day, gets bought by VMware the next
Just one day after announcing a version of its Alive performance analytics software for VMware environments, Integrien has been acquired by VMware.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 31 Aug 2010
Dennis Callaghan
Rachel Chalmers
Brenon Daly Cisco extends online video reach with acquisition of ExtendMedia
Cisco inks its first content management acquisition, buying ExtendMedia and taking another online video platform provider off the shelf.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 31 Aug 2010
Ben Kolada
Jim Davis Can CA make it rain with $200m purchase of authentication-in-the-cloud vendor Arcot?
CA Technologies makes another cloud management move – this time it secures access to the cloud with the acquisition of authentication-as-a-service provider Arcot. It's expensive, but CA is confident that it can make the numbers work.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 31 Aug 2010
Steve Coplan Citrix Systems buys VMLogix for lab, stage and cloud management
Ever since Citrix bundled VMLogix's software with its Essentials packs, we've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Quest Software's recent purchase of Surgient raised the stakes, but the real target of this deal is VMware.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 30 Aug 2010
Rachel Chalmers Hewlett-Packard buys Stratavia for database and application automation
If you thought HP's appetite for automation was exhausted by its Opsware acquisition, think again. Little-known but admired Stratavia brings deep database and application domain expertise, plus a 50-strong customer roster that includes PepsiCo and Visa.
TDM/ Deal Analysis, 26 Aug 2010
Rachel Chalmers Will the need for more flexible billing drive M&A in subscription management?
Google's recent acquisition of Jambool may cause other vendors to reexamine their own infrastructure. We expect to see a series of deals in the subscription management arena as players open their wallets to bring more expertise in-house.
TDM/ Sector IQ, 26 Aug 2010
China Martens Which European stock exchange will be next to go shopping?
The transformation of European trading prompted by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has increased not only volumes and liquidity, but also competition. Who will be left standing when the new execution venues have slugged it out?
TDM/ Sector IQ, 24 Aug 2010
John Barr
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