{"id":787,"date":"2009-02-23T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-02-23T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T15:00:58","slug":"technology-strong-hand-buyouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-strong-hand-buyouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Strong-Hand Buyouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tough economic times, enterprise software companies, like companies from many other industries, are doing their best to weather the difficulty.\u00a0 And big companies with cash on hand are capitalizing on the general weakness and snatching up bargains<\/a>.\u00a0 John Chambers of Cisco said that right now “Cash is king, queen, and the royal family”.
\nTop tier buyers include Oracle, Cisco, and Microsoft.\u00a0 Oracle, for example has $7.4 billion in cash available.\u00a0 Cisco has issued $4 billion in debt with an intent to use a good portion of that on acquisitions.\u00a0 Rumors of possible targets of Microsoft<\/a> include Adobe, Netflix, Yahoo, and RIM.
\nMany software companies are down in value 30 to 40 percent over the last year.\u00a0 And as companies are getting short on cash, their leverage in negotiation is low.<\/p>\n

Oracle has bought 10 companies over the last year.\u00a0 Oracle’s most recent acquisition was\u00a0 mValent, a software tool maker that assists with configurations.\u00a0 mValent top customers included Lehman Brothers and Circuit City.<\/p>\n

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With tough economic times, enterprise software companies, like companies from many other industries, are doing their best to weather the difficulty.\u00a0 And big companies with cash on hand are capitalizing on the general weakness and snatching up bargains.\u00a0 John Chambers…<\/span><\/p>\n

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