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IBM Agrees to Buy Sterling Commerce

By Kaitlin Brunsden on May 24, 2010 11:03 AM 0

The 1.4 billion dollar acquisition is one of IBM's largest deals in three years. AT&T's Sterling Commerce is a leader in integration solutions and business applications. The companies combined should promise improved integration capabilities while leaping ahead of their competitors.

Here are the latest tweets from the analysts we follow:

Tony Baer tweeted: IBM+Sterling = IBM one step closer to the apps business. Back door into supply chain mgmt.

Judith Hurwitz tweeted: Combination of sterling/IBM strength in business networks with analytics, business rules, BPM, governance. Compelling.

ebizQ's Prakash Kannoth tweeted: IBM focuses on vertical markets with sterling commerce acquisition.

Tony Baer comments on the acquisition in his blog.

With the recent onslaught of major acquisitions, who's next?

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Jayaprakash Kannoth is Software Engineer at TechTarget. His areas of interest include business process management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence , cloud/infrastructure computing and technology in business.
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Kaitlin Brunsden is assistant editor at ebizQ. She attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Photography. Prior to joining ebizQ, Kaitlin worked as a copy editor for The Submission and Italics Mine! magazines. She can be reached at kbrunsden@techtarget.com.

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