Oracle Now Avoiding Big Acquisitions

摘要

Oracle's growth-by-acquisition strategy has slowed markedly this year, and analysts say the firm is concentrating instead on integrating Sun Microsystems products and personnel into the company and finishing work on the long-awaited Fusion Applications. Oracle's last big acquisition -- the $7.4 billion purchase of Sun -- closed in early 2010. Since then, Oracle has been working to shore up Sun's hardware business and started pushing a vision of integrated systems that span from disks to applications. Oracle may also be looking to further increase its growing emphasis on hardware. Last year, for example, the company acquired a 10.2% stake in Mellanox, a maker of InfiniBand interconnects. But once the company is done integrating Sun and developing the modular Fusion Applications, its rapid-growth-by-acquisition strategy could return.