OT: IBM buys Cognos for $5B

[James Knott]

Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 11:10 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> It has little to do with the world of open source, but this will
>> significantly affect the Ottawa IT scene.
>>
>> http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-6e3dc2a9-e110-48c1&Portal=2e6e7040-2373-432d-b393-91e487ee7d70&sub=220148
>>     
>
> Interesting .. and they purchased Data Mirror two months ago as well ..
>
>   http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/integration/dm/
>
> I wonder why IBM's in a buying mood lately .. are they snapping things
> up before, say, Google gets there?
>
>   
Or Microsoft?


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