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Mergers & Acquisitions

Oct. 26, 2011

Oracle snags RightNow for $1.43 billion

Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp.'s acquisition machine roared back to life on Monday with a $1.43 billion purchase of Montana-based RightNow Technologies Inc.


By Robert Pierce


Daily Journal Staff Writer


PALO ALTO - Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp.'s acquisition machine roared back to life on Monday with a $1.43 billion purchase of Montana-based RightNow Technologies Inc.


The buy is Oracle's largest since April 2009, when the software giant purchased Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion.


Latham & Watkins LLP led for Oracle with a team headed by San Francisco Corporate Depar...

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