M&A Deal Summary

SpringSource Acquires Rabbit Technologies

On April 13, 2010, SpringSource acquired communications company Rabbit Technologies

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is SpringSource’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is SpringSource’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2010-04-13
Target Rabbit Technologies
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) SpringSource
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Rabbit Technologies

London, United Kingdom
Rabbit Technologies, Ltd develops and commercially supports the RabbitMQ messaging system. The company is based in the UK and was founded in February 2007. It is a spin out from LShift Ltd., the UK software consultancy and CohesiveFT, the US virtualization and cloud computing company.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

SpringSource

San Mateo, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

SpringSource is a provider of Java application infrastructure and management. SpringSource provides a complete suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2010 M&A 1 of 1
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-05-04 Hyperic

San Francisco, California, United States

Hyperic, Inc. is a provider of monitoring and management software for web applications.

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