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Who will Oracle acquire next?Market Research
Oracle has been very acquisitive in past years. In a recent analysis of Oracle’s acquisitions, Stephen Jannise of http://www.softwareadvice.com/ prepared this excellent infographic of Oracle’s acquisitions timeline, categories, and size:
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I would have put Industry Solutions at the left, to show a real spectrum from industry to application to middleware to database to hardware, but this graphic reveals real insight into Oracle’s strategy and focus on acquisitions over the past 5 years.
The article also points out some interesting analysis of what characterizes a good deal for Oracle. According to Stephen:
At the highest level, the motivations behind Oracle’s largest acquisitions appear to be the following:
- Grow market share leadership in key enterprise markets;
- Expand profitability by consolidating high-margin support revenue; and,
- Increase strategic relevance by offering a complete technology stack.
This last bullet is something that has played a larger role in really only two of Oracle’s acquisitions, both recent, but does two points define a trend? It certainly makes sense and is consistent with speaking points from the company’s senior executives.
So, who do you think Oracle will acquire next? Vote in this poll to share your opinion.
Who will Oracle acquire next?Market Research
After the poll closes, I’ll post an analysis of the results here.
Links:
- Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next? http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/enterprise/oracle-mergers-acquisitions-whos-next-1080310/
The infographic from Stephen Jannise is in my view not excellent. Take Sun Microsystems for example – it is catagorizen in server and storage, which is of course important, but where is MySQL and Java in this picture? Pretty big database and infrastructure pieces in my view.
Regards
Peter Frandsen
Peter -
Thanks for the comment. Of course, Sun had a database business, plus a services business as well. Nonetheless, Sun’s overwhelming majority of revenue, brand, and value was associated with its servers (OS + hardware) and storage businesses. This graphic, like most infographics, provides some level of simplification in order to clarify. Still, good point, and thanks for the comment!
- Dennis