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     information and communication technology

This page highlights some recent ICT merger & acquisition benchmarks.

A more comprehensive set of notes on IT industry landmarks is here.

Telecommunications privatisations and takeovers are also separately highlighted.

     information and communications technology

IT sector landmarks are -

• Honeywell-Bull buys Zenith microcomputer arm for US$635m in 1989
• AT&T acquires NCR for US$7.3bn in 1990
• Computer Associates buys Pansophic for US$300m in 1991
• Adobe buys Aldus for US$525m in 1994
• EDS buys AT Kearney for US$600m in 1995
• Cisco buys Grand Junction for US$348m in 1995
• Cisco buys Stratacom for US$4.8bn in 1996
• Novell sells WordPerfect and Quattro Pro to Corel for US$180m in 1996
• Apple buys NeXT for US$425m in 1996
• Microsoft buys WebTV for US$503m in 1997
• Ascend Communications buys Cascade for US$3.7bn in 1997
• Microsoft buys Hotmail for US$400m in 1998
• BMC buys Boole & Babbage for US$900m in 1998
• Nortel buys Bay Networks for US$9.1bn in 1998
• Nortel buys Qtera for C$5bn in 1999
• BCE spins off most of stake in Nortel for C$73bn in 1999
• Cisco buys Pirelli Optical Systems for US$2.1bn in 1999

Benchmarks since 1999 include -

• Nortel buys Alteon WebSystems for C$11.5bn in 2000
• Hewlett-Packard merges with Compaq in US$87bn deal in 2001
• IBM buys PwC Consulting for US$3.5bn in 2002
• IBM buys Rational Software for US$2.1bn in 2002
• EMC buys Legato for US$1.3bn in 2003
• EMC buys Documentum for US$1.7bn in 2003
• Oracle acquires PeopleSoft for US$10.3bn in 2004
• Symantec buys Veritas in US$13.5bn deal in 2004
• IBM pays US$1.1bn for Ascential in 2005
• Oracle buys Siebel for US$5.8bn in 2005
• Hitachi pays US$2bn for IBM's hard disk business in 2005
• Adobe buys Macromedia for US$3.4bn in 2005
• eBay agrees to pay US$2.6bn for Skype in 2005
• Cisco agrees to pay US$6.9bn for Scientific-Atlanta in 2005
• Texas Instruments sells sensors & controls unit to Bain Capital for US$3bn in 2006
• Lexar Media acquired by Micron Technology for US$682m in 2006
• Lucent bids US$207m for Riverstone Networks in 2006
• Alcatel and Lucent Technologies agree on US$13.4bn merger in 2006
• ADC Telecommunications agrees to acquire communications equipment maker Andrew Corporation for US$2bn in 2006
• Nokia and Siemens agree to merge telecommunication network equipment businesses in US$30bn deal in 2006

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