Acquisition Wednesday
OpinionWire Articles
Rob Hailstone - Published 23/01/2008
Wisely timing their announcements until the Christmas holiday period finally sank below the horizon (as opposed to IBM’s acquisition of Solid – see OpinionWire “IBM Buys into the In-Memory Database World”, 10 January), Oracle and Sun both unfortunately chose the same day – Wednesday 16th January – to make major acquisition announcements in the software infrastructure space, with the calls coming within an hour of each other. The more headline-catching of the two was Oracle’s announcement of an agreement …
