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Home > Oracle News > From soup to nuts, PeopleSoft to Sigma, a rundown of Oracle's acquisitions |
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 In June 2003, Oracle launched its takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc., just days after PeopleSoft itself had entered a merger agreement with J.D. Edwards. Three years later, Oracle had fended off PeopleSoft's board of directors and the U.S. Department of Justice, and gone on to buy 20 companies as part of a massive acquisition spree aimed at overtaking SAP as the leader in enterprise business applications. What follows is a timeline of every transaction, beginning with the close of the PeopleSoft deal.
January 2005 PeopleSoft: PeopleSoft's board of directors relents and accepts Oracle's sweetened offer of $26.50 per share, bringing to an end the 18-month, $10.3 billion takeover battle. March 2005 Retek: Retail technology vendor Retek Inc. finally decides between its two suitors and selects Oracle, which outbid rival SAP with a $670 million total offer. March 2005 Oblix: Shortly after buying Retek, Oracle branches out into identity management and security with Oblix. It is later integrated into Oracle Identity Management and will serve as the security foundation for Fusion Middleware. June 2005 TripleHop : Looking to extend its content management arsenal, Oracle buys up TripleHop's MatchPoint technology, a context-sensitive enterprise search tool. June 2005 TimesTen: Oracle acquires the real-time data management software vendor, an in-memory pioneer, to manage events, transactions and data within performance-critical applications. By October, it offers version 6.0 . July 2005 ProfitLogic: Oracle celebrates the anniversary of the American Revolution by buying another retail technology vendor. ProfitLogic's technology enables accurate sales forecasting and pricing decisions by showing customer demand patterns. It will integrate with Retek tools. July 2005 Context Media: Complementing its earlier TripleHop acquisition, the content integration and unified access features that Context Media provides with its content interchange platform prove attractive. Oracle acquires Context Media's Interchange Suite, Intershare, PortalPlus and EdgeShare products, which will be used to extend Fusion Middleware and complement the enterprise content management capabilities in the Oracle Collaboration Suite. August 2005 I-Flex: Oracle ups its stake in Indian banking software firm i-Flex from 52.5% to 55.1% for $125 million. September 2005 G-Log: During its annual OpenWorld conference, Oracle reveals it has bought G-Log and its logistics and transportation management and supply-chain software. It will later become part of Oracle Transportation Management 5.5. October 2005 Innobase: Oracle begins its open source spree, buying up the developer of discrete transactional open source database technology. Sleepycat's CEO says it's just an effort to disrupt MySQL AB. November 2005 Thor Technologies and OctetString: Oracle plucks a couple of private identity management firms off the shelf, adding Thor and OctetString to help it compete with IBM, Computer Associates and Sun, and complement its Oblix buy. December 2005 TempoSoft and 360 Commerce: Oracle acquires French workforce-management vendor TempoSoft just before the New Year to add workforce scheduling to integrate with PeopleSoft Enterprise, its E-Business Suite and Oracle Retail applications. Oracle also adds retail management software vendor 360 Commerce to capitalize on point-of-sale systems integration with customer interaction data. January 2006 Siebel: In one fell swoop, Oracle acquires CRM's big dog, adding Siebel and its 3.4 million users for the price tag of $5.85 billion. Siebel will be the centerpiece of Fusion CRM moving forward, and its analytics tools round out Oracle's BI offering. February 2006 Sleepycat: The CEO changes his tune, and the Berkeley DB open source database product line, with an estimated 200 million deployments, becomes the latest target in Oracle's buying spree. By May, Oracle releases a new version of Berkeley DB. February 2006 Hotsip: Oracle acquires Sweden-based Hotsip, a provider of telecommunications infrastructure software and Session Initiation Protocol-enabled applications for IP telephony, presence, messaging and conferencing on converged networks. April 2006 Portal: The revenue management software vendor provides Oracle a quick way to take on Amdocs and other order management vendors and build a billing infrastructure to reach into the telecom, cable and media markets. April 2006 Net4Call: A provider of Parlay/OSA service delivery components for the telecommunications industry, Net4Call will be combined with Oracle SDP to help customers turn siloed network investments into a service-oriented architecture. June 2006 Demantra: Oracle buys its way into the supply-chain software business for a reported $41 million. It bulks up its retail arsenal with a vendor that helps companies like Dunkin' Donuts, Welch's and Cargill manage their supply chains based on customer demand. June 2006 Telephony@Work: Oracle dials up the hosted contact center market and buys the underlying platform of its existing Siebel Contact OnDemand, its SaaS customer service application. Together, the acquisitions are intended to provide a full hosted contact center from one vendor. August 2006 Sigma Dynamics: Bulking up its Business Intelligence business, Oracle adds a real-time and predictive analytics vendor that will be offered standalone and as part of Oracle BI and Fusion Middleware. October 2006 Sunopsis Inc.: Oracle says the purchase of data integration vendor Sunopsis will enhance its Fusion Middleware offering by providing greater support for both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources. October 2006 MetaSolv Software Inc.: Oracle is planning to purchase telecommunications software provider MetaSolv. November 2006 SPL WorldGroup Inc.: Oracle announced plans to purchase the seller of revenue and operations management software to take on SAP in the utilities and public sector industries. November 2006 Stellent Inc.: Oracle receives U.S. antitrust approval to acquire the content management software vendor in a cash offer worth about $440 million. March 2007 Oracle to acquire Hyperion, claims BI supremacy: Oracle will pay $3.3 billion to acquire Hyperion, a business intelligence and corporate performance management vendor. Oracle announces Tangosol deal: Oracle's Tangosol acquisition will allow the database giant to enter the emerging Information-as-a-Service (IaaS) market, experts say. April 2007 Oracle to buy Lodestar: Oracle announces plans to purchase Lodestar Corp., a provider of meter data management and competitive energy software for the utilities industry. July 2007 Bharosa to give Oracle users transaction security: Oracle's acquisition of Bharosa Inc. will fill a key hole in Oracle's security lineup, according to experts. |
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