Oracle takeovers

Company History White Paper: Oracle History

2025: TikTok Purchase USDS

In December 2025, a deal was initiated to sell the American division of the social network TikTok. The Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the platform, has entered into an agreement with a consortium of American investors including Oracle, Silver Lake and the MGX fund. Read more here.

2021: Largest deal in Oracle history: $28.3 billion takeover of Cerner

In December 2021, it was announced that the corporate giant software Oracle had agreed on the largest deal in its history: it buys a company Cerner that creates software for medical organizations as part of a deal at a price of $95 per share, which is approximately $28.3 billion.

The deal, which is expected to close in the 2022 calendar year, could help Oracle strengthen its healthcare presence by attracting a large amount of medical data to its cloud services.

2019

Buying cloud services developer CrowdTwist

In early October 2019, Oracle announced the acquisition of CrowdTwist, but did not name the financial terms of the agreement. Read more here.

Purchase of Oxygen Systems ERP systems Integrator

At the end of June 2019, Oracle announced the acquisition of the integrator of its ERP systems Oxygen Systems. Read more here.

2018

Purchase of SD-WAN solutions developer Talari Networks

In mid-November 2018, Oracle announced the purchase of Talari Networks, but did not name how much the SD-WAN solution developer would pay. It is planned to close the deal before the end of 2018. Read more here.

Oracle and SAP have bought companies for $100 billion since 2005

In November 2018, it became known about the leadership of Oracle and SAP in the acquisition of software manufacturers. The IT giants spent more than $100 billion on these transactions. If we talk about the purchase of American IT-Business by European companies, then here SAP ranks first by a wide margin. Read more here.

Purchase of AI and data management systems developer DataFox

On October 22, 2018, Oracle announced the takeover of AI solutions and data management systems developer DataFox. Read more here.

Buying goBalto

Oracle On October 17, 2018, the corporation announced its plans goBalto cloudy to buy out Inc., a developer of a clinical research management platform. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but it is known that earlier this startup attracted more than $37 million from several investors, including one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor products. Qualcomm Among its customers, goBalto names, among others, pharmaceutical a giant. Pfizer More. here

Purchase of DataScience.com

May 16, 2018 Oracle announced the purchase of the platform. machine learning DataScience.com More. here

Purchase of Zenedge

In mid-February 2018 American , the corporate manufacturer software Oracle announced the purchase of a developer software to prevent DDoS Zenedge. More. here

2017

Buying Aconex

On December 18, 2017, it became known about the purchase of a developer ON for project management Aconex for 1.56 billion Australian (dollars about $1.2 billion). More. here

Buying Moat

On April 18, 2017, Oracle announced the purchase of advertising analysis technology developer Moat to improve its marketing business. The financial side of the agreement is not disclosed. After the deal closes, Moat will be part of Oracle Data Cloud division. Read more here.

Purchase of Apiary

On January 19, 2017, it became known about the agreement between Oracle Corporation and Application Programming Interface (API) to acquire the latter.

The Oracle API Integration Cloud cloud service allows companies to secure, use, monetize and analyze Application Programming Interface (API) interfaces. With the acquisition of Apiary, Oracle will also be able to provide customers with the most advanced capabilities for developing and managing Application Programming Interface (API) interfaces. Companies will be able to manage the full Application Programming Interface (API) lifecycle and deliver integrated applications. Amit Zavery, Senior Vice President, Integration Cloud, Oracle

2016

Buying Dyn

On November 21, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Dyn. The deal became known a month after Dyn suffered the largest DDoS attack in history. The cost of the acquisition has not been disclosed. Read more here.

Buying Palerra

In September 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Palerra as part of a strategy to deliver comprehensive cloud service identification and protection tools to customers. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Read more here.

NetSuite purchase for $9.3 billion

On July 28, 2016, Oracle announced the acquisition of NetSuite for $9.3 billion. Through this transaction, the buyer will be able to strengthen its position in the rapidly growing cloud services market.

Under the terms of the agreement, Oracle will pay $109 for each NetSuite share, which is 19% more than the value of securities by the close of the exchange on July 27, 2016. The announcement of the sale of NetSuite triggered an 18.6% increase in the company's quotations during trading before the official opening of the exchange session on July 28. Read more here.

Buying Opower

On May 2, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Opower for about $532 million. Shareholders of the absorbed company will receive $10.3 per share owned by them, which is almost a third more than the value of Opower securities at the close of the exchange on April 29, 2016. More on this here.

Buying Textura

On April 28, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Textura for $663 million in cash. As part of the deal, which is planned to be closed by the end of 2016, Textura shareholders will receive $26 per share, which is 30.7% of the value of securities at the time of closing the exchange on April 27, 2016. The announcement of the sale of Textura provoked a 28% increase in the company's quotes. Read more [[[Textura|here]].

2015

Buying Maxymiser

On August 20, 2015, Oracle Corporation announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Maxymiser.

The corporation believes that the integration of Maxymiser technologies with Oracle Marketing Cloud will strengthen the solution that manages marketing programs through all possible digital channels throughout the life cycle of customer interaction.

"Companies are increasingly looking for innovative methods to strengthen competitiveness that increase ROI and brand loyalty by improving customer experience," said Thomas Kurian, Oracle President of Product Development. "The Oracle Marketing Cloud platform with Maxymiser technologies will allow enterprises to no longer guess, but immediately provide customers with what they really want, and through any digital channels and on any device."

The deal is expected to close during 2015.

Oracle paid about $1.2 billion for Datalogix

On February 4, 2015, the media became aware of the amount that Oracle paid for the purchase of Datalogix Holdings. The companies themselves do not disclose the value of the transaction.

According to The Wall Street Journal, which refers to two people familiar with the situation, the acquisition of Datalogix cost Oracle more than $1.2 billion. This amount is almost 5 times less than the largest purchase in Oracle's history: in 2009, the American software manufacturer absorbed server and workstation developer Sun Microsystems for $5.7 billion.

2014: Micros Systems Purchase Plan

In June 2014, it became known that Oracle was going to acquire Micros Systems, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an informed source. According to him, for each Micros share, the corporation will offer $67 or in the amount of $5 billion on June 20, 2014, the value of Micros shares at the time of closing was $65.77. Thus, Oracle will pay slightly more than their market value.

The deal could be the largest for Oracle since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010. This server and server software manufacturer cost the corporation $7.4 billion. The official announcement of the deal is expected on June 23, 2014, in the evening Moscow time.

Speculation that Oracle intends to buy Micros Systems has already appeared before. The corporation's interest in this software developer, according to analysts, is due to the desire of the DBMS developer to significantly strengthen its position in the retail and healthcare sectors.

As of June 2014, Oracle has approximately $39 billion in cash and equivalents^[1].

2012

Head of Oracle: I was thinking about buying RIM and launching the direction of smartphones

In April 2012, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced that the corporation could buy Palm and BlackBerry Research In Motion to bring its own line of smartphones to market.

Ellison made such a loud statement in court, where Oracle is currently hearing a lawsuit against Google regarding its claims to use the corporation's (Java) Android developments in the source code. That was the answer to one of Google's lawyer questions. Ellison went on: "I had this idea that we could get into the smartphone market and compete with top players there. Since it arose, I studied this issue. We figured out the situation and realized that this idea was bad. "

According to him, when considering the prospects in detail, Oracle considered that the price of RIM was too high, and in general the corporation had too little expertise to manufacture mobile devices. Ellison did not explain whether Oracle would consider development in this market going forward.

Purchase of SelectMinds Talent Management Software Provider

On September 17, 2012, Oracle Corporation announced an agreement to purchase SelectMinds, a manufacturer of a talent management system, which will be a logical continuation of the acquisition made by Oracle earlier - the purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion. The terms of the next transaction, which should be closed before the end of 2012, were not disclosed.

Purchase of cloud software provider Eloqua

On December 20, 2012, Oracle announced the purchase of the marketing and automation cloud software developer Eloqua for $871 million. The deal is unanimously approved by Eloqua's board of directors. The deal is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2013.

2011: Acquisition of InQuira

On July 28, 2011, the company announced the acquisition of InQuira. The terms of the transaction, which is due to be completed at the end of 2011, were not disclosed.

2009: Sun Microsystems Takeover

On April 20, 2009, the takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was officially announced.

In September 2009, the European Commission took 4.5 months to investigate the deal between Oracle and Sun. The companies intended to complete the takeover of the latter before the end of the summer of 2009, but are now forced to wait until January 2010.

2005: Siebel Systems Purchase

On September 9, 2005, Ozark Holding Inc. was founded in Delaware as a division with 100 % participation in Oracle Corporation.

In September 2005, it became known that Oracle bought its competitor Siebel Systems for $5.8 billion. Oracle paid $10.66 per Siebel share. After the reported purchase, Siebel shares on Nasdaq rose $1.22 to $10.35, while Oracle fell $0.27 to $13.01.

Oracle management hopes that the acquisition will allow the company to receive 4 thousand corporate clients and 3.4 million users of CRM systems. Siebel will be Oracle's new major acquisition, but Larry Ellison is not going to stop there.

At the same time, new acquisitions are not easy for Oracle. The corporation has not yet fully streamlined the product lines of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, the mechanism for interaction with various partners has not been fully established. The protracted takeover process of PeopleSoft fell into the hands of Oracle's competitor, SAP, which has increased its market share thanks to this.

2004: PeopleSoft takeover

In 2004, Oracle absorbed PeopleSoft, its competitor in the enterprise software market, and literally "beat off" Retek, a retailer, from SAP.

At the same time, the head of Oracle, Larry Ellison, included Siebel Systems in the list of future acquisitions and the American developer of CRM solutions.

Larry Ellison is a staunch supporter of the idea of ​ ​ consolidating the software market. According to the head of Oracle, the future of the industry lies with large players covering the entire range of software solutions. Oracle is purposefully putting its strategy into action.

See also

• Oracle financials

• M&A Mergers & Acquisitions
• Cisco Takeovers
• Acquisitions and sale of Microsoft assets
• SAP Acquisitions
• Oracle takeovers
• Acquisitions and divestment of Intel assets
• Acquisitions and divestment of IBM assets

Notes