One hundred and forty-five. That’s the number of acquisitions Oracle made over two decades, totaling north of $110 billion in spent capital. Oracle doesn’t innovate. Oracle watches other companies innovate…
…then buys them.
This episode walks through the key acquisitions that built the surveillance empire, piece by piece, acquisition by acquisition, from PeopleSoft to BlueKai.
In this episode:
- The PeopleSoft hostile takeover and what it revealed about Oracle’s ambitions
- BEA Systems: buying the plumbing of the internet
- Sun Microsystems: Java, SPARC, and the hardware play
- Cerner: a quarter of America’s hospital records in one purchase
- BlueKai, Datalogix, AddThis: the data broker shopping spree
- How $110 billion in acquisitions created a surveillance machine no single company could have built alone
Read the full investigation with sources: [theredstringwire.com]
