Salesforce.com announces it’s acquiring ExactTarget for $2.5 billion (a 53 percent premium!). The same day, IBM reveals plans to purchase competitive cloud company SoftLayer Technologies, which could be worth $2 billion. And both buyouts come on the heels of Yahoo’s high-profile acquisition of Tum……
Mike Volpi
When we began the mergers-and-acquisitions journey at Cisco (s CSCO) in 1993, we had no idea what we were getting into. It was clear that there was a new category of products called “switches” that was threatening our leadership position in routing at the time. Our engineering team felt……