I was sure it was going to happen, but my previous predictions of a surge in technology buyouts for the second half of 2008 came way earlier than expected. But i’m not talking about any of these little web2.0 technology snap ups with money Google found down the back of their software, this is old-school big software company consolidation
For those that don’t digest the tech news on ZDNet or get a regular dose of Digging you might have missed these two big stories:
Sun Microsystems buys MySQL. A cool 1 billion dollars.
Oracle buys BEA Systems. A whopping 8.5 billion dollars.
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