DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

IBM

FileNet

IBM buys FileNet for $1.6B

Consolidation in content management systems continues with IBM scooping up FileNet.

Brocade Communications Systems

McData

Brocade buys McData for $713M

Brocade and McData, long-time rivals in storage switching, are merging to deal with Cisco Systems.

Cisco Systems

Nuova Systems

Cisco buys 80% of Nuova for $50M

Cisco acquired the majority of in-house startup Nuova, supposedly for its virtualization tools.

Citrix Systems

Orbital Data

Citrix buys Orbital for $50M

Citrix gets WAN optimization tools for its remote access portfolio.

Oracle

IDS Scheer

Oracle licenses IDS' biz process management tool

For an undisclosed amount, Oracle gives customers the Aris BPM platform.