It was no surprise that Oracle Corp. is among the candidates for our
Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers, or MACD, award in the information technology industry. It has been one of the most transaction-intensive companies in the IT world in recent years.
It looks like the deals will continue. Speaking at the OpenWorld conference, Oracle president Charles Phillips suggested that over the next five years,
the level of acquisition activity could be similar to what Oracle has done in the past 44 months, ManagingAutomation.com reported.
As with other candidate companies, Oracle's deals are
listed on the MACD part of our site. The company has complete three huge deals in the past four years: It spent $5.6 billion on Seibel Systems Inc. in 2005, $3.3 billion on Hyperion Solutions Corp. in 20007 and $8.35 billion on BEA Systems Inc. in January.
The ManagingAutomation article quoted Phillips as saying: "We have access to innovation around the world because of our balance sheet and acquisition strategy." In a sense, he said, Oracle "is the IPO market for the software industry."
A
2007 ranking placed Oracle as the No. 3 software company in the world based on revenue. It was behind Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. IBM made the cut on our list of candidates for MACD in IT, but Microsoft didn't.
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