| By Mark R. Hinkle |
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| February 8, 2008 07:45 AM EST |
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Mark Hinkle's Socialized Software BlogIs 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition?
Activity
in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed.
I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the
world has changed. It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race with
Microsoft
putting
the moves on Yahoo! for about $44.6 billion (
Notes from
SearchEngineLand). I guess it’s really on now, Google versus Microsoft in a
search engine death match.
Yahoo! acquired
Zimbra last year. I wonder
what
that means for the "Exchange killer"?
Amazon is
acquiring
Audible.com the leading provider of digital spoken word content establishing
itself even further as the web’s biggest superstore.
There were already three open source transactions in January:
MySQL bought by
SunNokia
Buys TrolltechCovalent was Acquired by
SpringSourceIn preparation Andrew Aiken and the boys from the
Olliance Group are ready to help along
the deals with their
newly
formed M&A practice.
Mark Hinkle is the Vice President of Community at Cloud.com. the maker of the open source cloud computing management software, CloudStack He also is along-time open source expert and advocate. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Hinkle is also the author of the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). His blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at http://www.socializedsoftware.com.
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