M&A Deal Summary

IBM Acquires Informix Software

On July 2, 2001, IBM acquired software company Informix Software from Ascential Software for 1.0B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IBM’s 3rd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is IBM’s 19th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is IBM’s 7th transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2001-07-02
Target Informix Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) IBM
Sellers(s) Ascential Software
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 1.0B USD

Target

Informix Software

Menlo Park, United States
Informix Software is a provider of database management systems for data warehousing, business intelligence and transaction processing.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

IBM

Armonk, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1911
Sector Information Technology
Employees282,200
Revenue 61.9B USD (2023)
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 8 of 198
Sector (Software) 3 of 109
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 19
Country (United States) 7 of 142
Year (2001) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 19 of 33
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-06-28 IBM - Process Control Patent

United States

IBM - Process Control Patent is manufacturer of a process control of next generation microchips.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-01-02 IBM - Optical Transceiver Business

United States

IBM - Optical Transceiver Business products include small form factor (SFF) transceivers and Gigabit Interface Converters (GBIC) for storage area networks (SAN) and local area networks (LAN) using optical Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet protocols.

Sell $100M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Ascential Software

Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Software
Employees970
DESCRIPTION

Ascential Software Corp. is a provider of extraction, transformation, and loading software for building data warehouses and transferring information between disparate data sources.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Software) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2001) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Vality provides data-quality software tools and re-engineering consulting services

Buy $92M
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