True, Oracle has recently decided to get into the social enterprise game with its acquisition of a Radian6 competitor.
As the first really big acquisition of an enterprise 2.0 business it also validates the bottom-up sales model which Yammer pioneered on a large scale.
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It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.
They are ultimately about the n ew enterprise operating system, extending resource acquisition and performance enhancement in new ways.
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It is also becoming one of the major players in enterprise hardware, thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010.
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Armed with over 20 years of experience across technology, internet and marketing sectors, Mr. Bradford joined Oracle in the company's acquisition of Vitrue, a leading social enterprise software and marketing platform.
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Marc Benioff all but educated the market on the benefits of software-as-a-service, the advantages of using a lightweight, easily configurable hosted sales force application compared to the generally accepted status quo of the time: complex enterprise software typified by Siebel, now an Oracle acquisition.
But Dell, meanwhile, continues to use acquisition to diversify its business more and more into the enterprise IT stack.
The Microsoft acquisition shows the increasing importance of social networking tools in the enterprise.
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Fusion-io sees this acquisition as adding to its market offerings for storage for high performance enterprise environments and accelerating the adoption of Fusion-io technology.
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It is no excuse either for the HP board to have gambled its future on growth by acquisition to stem the way its old-line core businesses, like storage and enterprise software, were collapsing.
With this acquisition, Oracle acquired important middleware tools like the Weblogic Server (a tool for deploying Java based enterprise applications) and Tuxedo (a tool used to deploy mainframe-based applications).
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