In our post Enterprise Software: Is there any one left to buy?
we listed the best candidates to be acquired within the lucrative
Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) industry:
be acquired. (If they were willing then IBM would likely have bought
them versus SPSS...no offense to SPSS but SAS is the 800-lb gorilla in
the business analytics segment.)

The high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP)
- are already very active in the DW/BI industry selling software,
services and in some cases hardware. Are any of the acquisition targets
on our list attractive to the Titans and would impact their market
presence?
>>>Continue reading Enterprise Software: Who Should Buy Whom?
Posted September 30, 2009 12:46 PM
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