M&A Deal Summary

Oracle Acquires Ksplice

On July 21, 2011, Oracle acquired software company Ksplice

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Oracle’s 55th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Oracle’s 60th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Oracle’s 11th transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-07-21
Target Ksplice
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Oracle
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Ksplice

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ksplice is the creator of innovative zero downtime update technology for Linux.

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Buyer

Oracle

Austin, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 1977
Sector Software
Employees159,000
Revenue 53.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Oracle's headquarters in Austin, Texas.
Oracle's headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Oracle provides products and services that address corporate information technology (IT) environments including applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Its products and services are available to customers via cloud computing or on-premises deployment models. Products include database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure software and hardware systems (Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking and industry specific products), along with support and related services. Oracle was formed in 1977 and is based in Austin, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 73 of 132
Sector: Software M&A 55 of 73
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 66 of 124
State: Massachusetts M&A 11 of 13
Country: United States M&A 60 of 114
Year: 2011 M&A 4 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-29 Pillar Data Systems

San Jose, California, United States

Pillar Data Systems is a provider of SAN Block I/O storage systems that provide exceptional performance scaling characteristics with patented Quality of Service.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-28 InQuira

San Bruno, California, United States

InQuira is a provider of knowledge management solutions that support web self-service, agent-assisted service, and customer communities.

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