M&A Deal Summary

Oracle Acquires AppForge

On April 18, 2007, Oracle acquired software company AppForge

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Oracle’s 24th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Oracle’s 27th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Oracle’s 1st transaction in Georgia.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-04-18
Target AppForge
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Oracle
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

AppForge

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
AppForge, a company formerly based in Atlanta with a mobile application development and mobile applications platform.

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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. Oracle's 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 32 of 132
Sector (Software) 24 of 73
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 28 of 124
State (Georgia) 1 of 3
Country (United States) 27 of 114
Year (2007) 4 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-03-23 Tangosol

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Tangosol provides a proven reliable in-memory data grid technology designed to meet the new demands for real-time data analytics, compute intensive middleware and high performance transactions—often referred to as Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP).

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-24 LODESTAR

Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

LODESTAR Corp. is a provider of energy software products which address such critical back office requirements for energy market participants as pricing, complex billing, load analysis, and settlement.

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