Bigger company got better edge
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
Software industry in the US has several big acquisitions recently. Oracle buys Peoplesoft (merged cap 60B). Symantec (Cap 13B) buys Veritas (Cap 8.6B). Adobe (Cap 14.1B) buys Macromedia (Cap 2.8B). Suppose the merged cap doesn’t shrink after acquisition (though not likely), the new top software companies will be
Microsoft (269.1B)
Oracle (60B)
SAP (50.3B)
Symantec (21B)
Adobe (17B) / Infosys [...]