M&A Deal Summary

Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer NV

On January 7, 2009, Sun Microsystems acquired software company Q-layer NV

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Sun Microsystems’ 27th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Sun Microsystems’ 1st transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-01-07
Target Q-layer NV
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Sun Microsystems
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Q-layer NV

Lochristi, Belgium
Q-layer NV is an infrastructure management company that has technology to automate the deployment and management of both public and private clouds.

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Buyer

Sun Microsystems

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Sector Technology Hardware
DESCRIPTION

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services and that created the Java programming language, and the Network File System.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 39
Sector: Software M&A 27 of 27
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 39 of 39
Country: Belgium M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-04-21 Montalvo Systems

Santa Clara, California, United States

Montalvo Systems, Inc. is a Silicon Valley start-up reportedly working on an asymmetrical, x86 capable processor similar to the Cell microprocessor. The processor was to use high-performance cores for performance-intensive threads, and delegate minor tasks to the simpler cores to save silicon and power.

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