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- Report: Microsoft buys systems management startup for $US60 million
- Microsoft has acquired systems management vendor Opalis Software for about $60 million, according to an analyst report. Brenon Daly, an analyst with The 451 Group, blogged earlier this week about the deal, citing unnamed financial and industry sources. The VC-backed Mississauga, Ontario, startup was making about $10 million a year...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Symantec Said Buying Conficker-Killer
- Symantec is going to announce the acquisition of Mi5 Networks, a niche vendor in the the Internet security space this week, according to 451Group analyst Brenon Daly. Mi5, named after the famed British intelligence service, sells appliances that help organizations protect their networks...
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- Informatica Next On Oracle's Shopping List?
- Informatica, which makes technology intended to help companies manage and deduplicate data held in various technology systems, would be a logical next acquisition target for Oracle, as would a number of other niche vendors in the same space, like Initiate Systems and Siperian. Informatica, however, would be the most logical...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- The 451 Group adds four more technology-industry veterans to its analyst ranks.(BUSINESS)
- The 451 Group--a privately held, New York-based technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation--welcomes four more technology-industry veterans to its ranks. With these latest additions, The 451 Group continues to grow at a rapid pace, responding to increasing demand for its services....
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Is IPO Window Opening for SolarWinds?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly It’s been exactly a year since SolarWinds put in its paperwork to go public. In that time, capitalism has been beaten and bloodied. To underscore that, consider that the late-great Lehman Brothers was one of the original underwriters of...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Cisco Used Equity to Acquire Pure Digital
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly When we wrote recently that Cisco Systems CSCO was an unpredictable acquirer, we only covered half of it. Who would have thought prior to rumors and subsequent official word last Thursday that Cisco really wanted to buy its way...
- External links 2009-03-25
- Quick Thoughts on a Possible Red Hat, Oracle Merger
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly If Oracle ORCL was seriously planning a bid for Red Hat RHT and we have our doubts about such a pairing, then Larry Ellison had better be prepared to reach deeper into his pocket. Following Red Hat’s solid fiscal fourth-quarter...
- External links 2009-03-28
- IPO Watch: Tough Exits for VCs Continue
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly After being frozen for more than six months, there were some signs of a thaw this week in the tech IPO market. Chinese game maker Changyou.com CYOU enjoyed a strong debut on Thursday, and only inched down slightly in the...
- External links 2009-04-04
- IBM and Sun: Simply March Madness?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Maybe the speculation around IBM IBM buying Sun Microsystems JAVA was nothing more than a bit of March Madness. When reports surfaced last month that a deal could be in the works, Sun’s long-ailing shares soared from about...
- External links 2009-04-06
- Unprofitable SumTotal Being Eyed by San Francisco-Based PE Firm
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly A half-decade ago, a pair of struggling public companies joined together in an effort to capitalize on the fragmented e-learning market. Click2Learn.com and Docent, which had beat up on each other for years, merged into a single company under the...
- External links 2009-04-09
- Empire Capital: Making Rain with Its Security Software Sale
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly For the second time in less than a year, a micro-cap security company in which hedge fund Empire Capital holds a big position is being taken off the board. On Monday, Entrust ENTU said it agreed to a $114m...
- External links 2009-04-14
- Former PC Buyer Now Focusing on InFocus Buy-Back
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Having already played a central role in much of the recent consolidation of the PC industry, John Hui has shifted his attention to another segment of the tech hardware market: digital projectors. Hui on Monday unveiled a take-private plan for...
- External links 2009-04-15
- Is Symantec Going Shopping?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly After holding off for some time, Websense WBSN finally rolled out its first secure Web gateway appliance earlier this month. Now we’re hearing that another major security vendor is about to get into the box business. Only this time,...
- External links 2009-04-18
- Oracle's Sun Purchase: Acquiring a System on the Cheap
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Oracle’s ORCL big step into the hardware market comes at a relatively small price. In buying Sun Microsystems JAVA, Oracle is paying just one-tenth the valuation that it paid in its other multibillion-dollar acquisitions. The difference: the other purchases added...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Credit Suisse Gets Sole Credit for Largest Tech Deal of 2009 (Thus Far)
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly While most of the focus of Oracle’s ORCL mammoth purchase of Sun Microsystems JAVA has been on the impact on the tech landscape, we’d like to note that the pending transaction is also likely to radically reshape another market: tech...
- External links 2009-04-24
- SumTotal Systems Continues to Be In Play
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly The sum total of all interested parties in SumTotal Systems SUMT may well be greater than the two that have already disclosed themselves. At least that’s the thinking among investors – or rather, speculators – in the learning management software...
- External links 2009-04-28
- From a Markets Perspective, Going It Alone Can Be Expensive
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Wall Street hasn’t been particularly supportive of tech companies that turn down unsolicited offers and opt to go it alone. Shares in a number of the targeted firms are currently changing hands at less than half the level that the...
- External links 2009-04-28
- Second Time's a Charm for I-many?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly As it reported its first profit since going public in 2000, I-many also said Wednesday that it will be going private in a $36m buyout by LLR Partners. The Philadelphia-based buyout shop – led by Greg Case, who...
- External links 2009-05-01
- What Was the Return on Borland's M&A
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Looking a bit closer at Micro Focus’(MCFUF.PK) $75m acquisition earlier this week of Borland Software BORL, my colleague John Abbott noted that the British company was essentially picking up the Segue Software business that Borland itself bought three years ago....
- External links 2009-05-10
- Silicon Graphics Name Returns via Rackable's Acquisition
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Rackable Systems RACK has won approval from the bankruptcy courts to acquire Silicon Graphics Inc for $42.5m in cash, as other potential bidders passed on the one-time tech stalwart. And, just as Tera Computer did when it bought the much-better-known...
- External links 2009-05-12
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