The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would be the largest M&A deal involving two pure technology companies (AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner was larger but Time Warner is technically a media company), shattering the record previously held by Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Compaq in 2001 for what would now be $33.6 billion.
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Global software revenue has totalled $407.3 billion in 2013 as per the report from Gartner. This is a 4.8% increase from 2012. Microsoft is at the top of the chart with revenue of $65.7 Billion with a growth rate of 6%. Oracle is at 2nd spot with $29.6 billion & captures 7.3% of the market. SMAC (social media, mobile, analytics & cloud) is rapidly changing the way business operate & software companies addressing the new technologies. Salesforce.com has the highest growth among the top 10 vendors at 33.3%. Some of the other companies in the list are IBM, SAP, Symantac, EMC, HP & others. HP & CA tachnologies have a negative growth rate of 2.7% & 2.6% respectively.
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