M&A Deal Summary

IBM Acquires Unicorn Solutions

On May 9, 2006, IBM acquired software company Unicorn Solutions

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IBM’s 34th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is IBM’s 41st transaction in the United States.
  • This is IBM’s 3rd transaction in New York.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-05-09
Target Unicorn Solutions
Sector Software
Buyer(s) IBM
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Unicorn Solutions

New York, New York, United States
Unicorn Solutions, Inc. is a developer of software for metadata management.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

IBM

Armonk, New York, United States

Category Company
Founded 1911
Sector Information Technology
Employees270,300
Revenue 62.8B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York.
Entrance to IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York.

IBM is a global provider of information technology products and services. IBM's products and services include IT infrastructure and business process services, cloud computing, business analytics, and enterprise software. IBM was formed in 1911 and is based in Armonk, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 51 of 204
Sector: Software M&A 34 of 111
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 41 of 181
State: New York M&A 3 of 9
Country: United States M&A 41 of 147
Year: 2006 M&A 7 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-05-02 BuildForge

Austin, Texas, United States

BuildForge, Inc. is a provider of customers automate software development processes company.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-05-18 Rembo Technology

Geneva, Switzerland

Rembo Technology Ltd. is a provider of software that helps organizations automatically install or upgrade operating systems on thousands of servers, laptops and desktop computers simultaneously, which eliminates the need for IT specialists to spend days or weeks installing software manually on each physical or virtualized computer.

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