Fudge Sunday - Come Together

This week we take a look at mergers and acquisitions with FinOps in mind.

The Beatles - Come Together (1969)

Getting Informed

Each year I spent with what is now known as Dell Technologies involved an anniversary blog post. Looking back, I had many email addresses due to the nature of starting at a joint venture funded by VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Intel (seed).

Acadia formed then became VCE which joined EMC Federation that merged with Dell to become Dell EMC and is known as Dell Technologies. So, while I wasn’t in IT, my email address progression was something like…

Listed below are a few companies known for their M&A activity ordered (roughly) by numbers available in public information sources.

Cisco = 200+ companies

Cisco has made 200+ acquisitions.

In fact, Cisco’s 200th acquisition was in 2017.

And the latest one is FinOps related – Opsani.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220327045327/https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/acquisitions-list-years.html?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Microsoft = 200+ companies

Microsoft has made 200+ acquisitions.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220405022106/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

IBM = 200+ companies

IBM has made 200+ acquisitions.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220406091144/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_IBM?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Oracle = 100+ companies

Oracle has made 100+ acquisitions.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220205141204/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Apple = 100+ companies

Apple has made 100+ acquisitions.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220322002907/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Dell = 100+ companies

Dell experienced multiple concurrent nested mergers and acquisitions. When merged with Dell in 2016, EMC Federation had previously completed 70+ acquisitions including VMware (see below).

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115235/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dell_ownership_activities?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

VMware = 50+ companies

VMware has made 50+ acquisitions.

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220408072042/https://www.vmware.com/company/acquisitions.html?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Recommended Read and Repo

Countries that feed the M&A engine…

Have you wondered where founders of unicorns are born? Good news. Stanford’s Ilya A. Strebulaev has published some findings.

Source:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ilyavcandpe_unicorns-venturecapital-entrepreneurship-activity-6895029279780872192-gE0S/?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

FinOps taxonomy infographic

If the M&A hunger continues (and it will), the FinOps Landscape infographic will be evolving too.

Source:

GitHub - finopsfoundation/finops-landscape: 🌄FinOps Landscape

GitHub - finopsfoundation/finops-landscape: 🌄FinOps Landscape

🌄FinOps Landscape. Contribute to finopsfoundation/finops-landscape development by creating an account on GitHub.

And finally… Shot and Chaser

Shot: Google TiSP (2007)

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access […] via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Source:

https://archive.google.com/tisp/install.html?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

Chaser: 5G has entered the chat (2022)

New proposals to accelerate the rollout of broadband without digging up roads could see fibre-optic cables deployed through […] water mains […]

Source:

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/04/broadband-cables-to-be-routed-through-water-pipes-in-new-trial/?utm_campaign=Start%20the%20week%20more%20informed&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

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