All Posts Tagged With: "acquisition"
IBM / Cisco Eyeing Acquisition of Citrix?
Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. Citrix’s stock went from a low of $30.60 Tuesday to a high of $33.75. Rumors of Citrix being purchased fueled the higher trading prices, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst for Avian Securities.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedFollow-up On Our April Fool’s Joke On Sun Acquiring Parallels
By now, you may have heard about the prank post we published on April Fool’s Day about Sun acquiring Parallels for $ 205 million. While the story was obivously fake, many people started speculating about its authenticity and - which was far more interesting - about the possibility of Parallels ever selling, and if so, at what price?
7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems To Acquire Parallels For $ 205 Million (Updated)
Sun Microsystems has today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Parallels (formerly SWsoft) and all of its assets for $ 85 million. The major acquisition had been rumoured to be imminent throughout the course of 2007, but never actually went through, which led mosts analysts to believe the Herndon, VA-based company was heading towards an IPO following in VMware’s footsteps.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 23 comments | ContinuedNovell Picks Up PlateSpin For $ 205 Million in Cash
Today, Novell announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PlateSpin for $205 million using current cash. The acquisition is expected to close during Novell’s second fiscal quarter 2008 subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions.
25Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | ContinuedFunding For CiRBA and Virtual Iron, Dell Completes Acquisition of EqualLogic
More interesting news today:
CiRBA Raises $12 Million With Sigma Partners
CiRBA Inc., today announced that it has raised $12 million in its second round of institutional funding led by Sigma Partners . Existing investors including Edgestone Capital Partners and others also participated in the round. The funding will enable CiRBA to further accelerate growth [...]
Acquisition Mania: Quest Software Snaps Up Vizioncore
Ain’t no stopping the flurry of acquisition spree we’re witnessing lately in the virtualization space. As reported by many media already, Quest Software Inc . has completed its acquisition of Vizioncore Inc. , a provider of disaster recovery and other products for virtual infrastructure management.
Quest already took a controlling stake in the company in 2005, [...]
Microsoft Betting Big on Virtualization; Acquires Calista Technologies. Citrix Up Next?
Microsoft plans to announce today what it calls a companywide strategy to accelerate broad adoption of virtualization by its customers. As part of the its new approach, the Redmond-based software giant unveiled a suite of services aimed at reducing the number of servers businesses need to use, separating applications from operating systems, reducing costs and [...]
21Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedPortableApps Following In Thinstall’s Acquisition Footsteps?
Joe Foran is speculating a future acquisition of application virtualization provider PortableApps on the Server Virtualization Blog .
“There are, of course, differences, but the overall business models are very similar. PA is an open-source outfit, which makes them a bit more transparent than Thinstall, which has a mix of OSS and proprietary products. Since [...]
19Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMWare Picks Up Desktop Virtualization Startup Thinstall
Virtualization may well be considered non-sexy in some parts , VMWare’s announcement that it is set to acquire Thinstall , a San Francisco-based desktop virtualization technology provider, should be able to change that view. Bringing virtualization to the desktop is a natural evolution that is destined to become a huge opportunity in a thriving [...]
15Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued
