Agilysys to buy Sun reseller Innovativ
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(InfoWorld) - IT distributor Agilysys Inc. continued its strategy of growing by acquisition, announcing plans to buy Innovativ Systems Design Inc., a major U.S. reseller of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s servers and storage products. It's the third purchase in six months for Agilysys, whose ultimate goal is to double in size to become a US$1 billion business within two years. Agilysys will pay US$100 million in cash for Innovativ. The deal, announced Friday, also includes a provision for the vendor to make an extra maximum payment of $90 million provided the Innovativ business achieves specific financial targets in the first two years after purchase. Agilysys hopes to close the acquisition on or around July 1. With headquarters in Edison, New Jersey, Innovativ is a systems integrator and reseller of servers, enterprise storage management and services, with a particular emphasis on the financial services and telecommunications industries. "The acquisition of Innovativ will establish a new and significant relationship between Sun and Agilysys," Arthur Rhein, Agilysys chairman, CEO and president, said in a release. He noted that the company already resells products from Sun's storage rivals EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. and its server competitors HP and IBM. Once the deal is complete, the firm will establish a new Agilysys Sun technology solutions business unit to be headed by Innovativ's current CEO Tony Mellina. In recent months, Agilysys has bought Visual One Systems, a developer and seller of Windows-based software for the hospitality industry, and Stack Computer, a technology integrator that focuses on high-availability storage from EMC and customers in the health-care, financial services and manufacturing industries. At the same time, Agilysys divested itself of its KeyLink systems distribution business assets to Arrow Electronics Inc. in March for $485 million in cash. The offloading of the KeyLink operation is in line with Agilysys' aim to concentrate exclusively on selling technology directly to corporate and public-sector customers. Factoring in the acquisitions of both Stack and Innovativ, Agilysys will expand annual revenue to over $800 million, on its way to becoming a $1 billion operation in 2009 and a $1.5 billion business come 2010. Â
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UK semiconductor design company Arm Holdings PLC has agreed to acquire a Sunnyvale, California, provider of components for chip manufacturing in a deal valued at around $913 million in cash and stock.
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Sun Microsystems on Monday disclosed plans to acquire SevenSpace Inc., an Ashburn, Va.-based provider of IT outsourcing and managed services.
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Perrigo Co., the US pharmaceutical manufacturer, said Monday it agreed to buy Israel-based Agis Industries for $818 million. Under the terms, shareholders for Agis will get 0.8011 shares of Perrigo stock and
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(InfoWorld) - Sun will start selling its lineup of 64-bit PC servers preinstalled with the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft within 90 days, the two companies said today. The two longtime rivals also said they will cooperate on technical development of Microsoft's server operating system on Sun Fire hardware as well as making Sun's Solaris Unix operating system fully manageable under Microsoft's recently introduced System Center Virtual Machine Manager software.                                                     "Management interoperability is part of our management strategy," said Andrew Lees, corporate vice president for the server and tools marketing and solutions group at Microsoft. The moves could help Sun boost sales of its servers, which have been hurting ever since the bursting of the dot-com bubble saw the rise of cheap PC servers running either Linux or Windows. "People who might not have in the past considered a Sun server for Windows will now consider it," said Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. Sun has been making aggressive partnership moves. IBM said last month that it would sell PC-based servers and blades using Solaris. For Microsoft, the tie-up could help the company compete in the hot virtualization market, where it is No. 2 to market leader VMware. Sun has long had its own virtualization technology, called Solaris Containers. Today's announcement, the companies said, is an expansion of an initial technical cooperation agreement signed in April 2004, during which Microsoft also paid Sun $1.6 billion to settle lingering antitrust and patent disputes. "What we have had has already produced good fruit, but we are looking forward to a significant expansion," Lees said. Sun will also build an interoperability center on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash. The companies will also expand their Internet Protocol television partnership, which involves Microsoft's MediaRoom IPTV and multimedia platform and Sun's server and storage systems. Sun launched its Sun Fire servers two years ago as its first foray into the fast-growing PC server market. The servers run less-expensive but powerful AMD Opteron processors and start at prices of less than $1,000. The Sun Fire servers already support Windows Server, along with Red Hat Linux, Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux, VMware's ESX virtualization system, and Sun's own Solaris operating system, according to Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing at Sun Systems. That allowed customers who had volume-license agreements with Microsoft to send their image DVDs to Sun and have the company preinstall Windows Server, Sieker said. But with this agreement, Sun will now officially be able to ship servers preinstalled with Windows Server to any customer or channel partner, she said. Windows Server will still be unable to run on Sun Fire servers using Sun's own Sparc64 chips, she said. Sun will continue to support and resell Red Hat and Suse Linux on its Sun Fire servers, she said. Future versions of those servers will also use Intel processors. Asked if Sun's latest alliance shows its intent to compete more directly with Linux and VMware, Sieker said, "We are responding to strong customer demand for this.... It's a complex marketplace out there." Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion.
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Sun Microsystems has agreed to purchase IT services company SevenSpace Inc. The move takes Sun further away from its traditional focus on supporting only its Solaris operating system platform.
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Agilysys Inc., a supplier of electronic components and computer systems, said Tuesday that it swung to a profit in the fiscal second quarter as acquisitions contributed to strong sales growth.
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InfoWorld - Sun announced Tuesday that it is buying Innotek, maker of VirtualBox, virtualization software that may have more value for software developers than datacenter administrators.
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Sun on Monday is announcing a deal with S2io Technologies Inc. to integrate drivers for that company&#39;s Xframe 10G-bps Ethernet Adapter into its Solaris operating system for all of its servers, including those
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Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O has agreed to acquire closely held SevenSpace Inc., adding to Sun&#39;s managed services offerings, the network computer maker said on Monday.
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In for the big win Having recently rediscovered itself as a systems company, Sun Microsystems has been welcomed into Microsoft's vast and growing family of OEM partners.â¦
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InfoWorld - Almost lost in the clamor over Sun&#39;s expanded partnership with Microsoft on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun&#39;s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to acquire a majority of the assets of Cluster File Systems.
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Avaya Inc. AV.N, a  telecommunications equipment supplier, on Tuesday said it would  buy Tenovis GmbH & Co. of Germany from private equity firm  Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for $370 million in cash to  expand its presence in Europe.
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Dutch chipmaker NXP will buy  U.S.-based semiconductor developer GloNav, which specializes in  global positioning system (GPS) chips, for up to $110 million  in cash, it said in a statement on Friday.
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LONDON -- British semiconductor designer ARM Holdings PLC said yesterday it has agreed to buy US technology firm Artisan Components Inc. for $913 million in cash and stock to boost its product range and reach more customers.