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Software AG signs intent agreement to acquire IDS Scheer

Creating a new one billion Euro superpower, Software AG agrees to acquire IDS Scheer, makers of the popular ARIS suite of Business Process and Business Analysis tools. IDS Scheer represents 390M Euro of annual revenue. Combined this will result in about 1.1B Euro After the acquisition of webMethods for $546M in April of 2007, many have speculated on the next steps in the growth aspirations of Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich–who is currently executing his aggressive 10 year plan...
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Sun Oracle Snorkel CEO Email makes me sick

Jeremy Geelan posted Jonathan Schwartz’s email to all Sun employees announcing the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Frankly this email makes me very angry. Please consider that analysts are responding to Oracle’s profitability plan: Oracle expects the Sun deal to contribute $1.5 billion toward its earnings next year and $2 billion in the second year of the acquisition, making it “more profitable in per-share contribution in the first year than we had planned for...
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Helping Dolphins Fly

Does anyone else see the irony in Jonathan Schwartz’s blog entry titled : Helping Dolphins Fly? (about the MySQL acquisition). http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing This image is all-too-close to the image of the other flying cetacean du jour, the Fail Whale. It’s also evocative of another kind of proposed flying mammal: I’m sorry if this is all coming across as vitriolic or non-constructive. I’m just expressing a collective...
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