synopsis: Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, announced that it has finalized an Asset Purchase Agreement with Aleri Inc. Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions.

synopsis: Vhayu Technologies announced that it has been acquired by Thomson Reuters. hrough its patented Velocity and Squeezer technologies, Vhayu combines software and hardware to provide significant competitive advantages by enabling faster and smarter trading decisions for financial firms concerned with the processing and storage of market data.

synopsis: Zephyr Associates, Inc. (Zephyr), announced they have been acquired by Kemmons Wilson Companies (KWC), a privately-held company located in Memphis, Tenn. Zephyr is known in the investment world for its signature analytical software tools, StyleADVISOR and AllocationADVISOR.

synopsis: Quant House, a provider of low latency market data systems, has acquired the software products of SmartQuant, which enable traders to develop, back test, simulate and execute program trading strategies.

synopsis: First Derivatives plc announced the acquisition of Hologram, an Australian technology company specialising in risk management and data management systems, in a deal worth approximately 2.5m Australian dollars.

synopsis: First New York Securities, LLC, the preeminent multi-strategy proprietary trading firm, announced the acquisition of all the assets of Spartan Technologies, LLC. The transaction includes source codes, personnel and existing clients. Spartan’s HydraTrade platform is a proven and high producing buy-side and sell-side platform.

synopsis: NetQoS Inc., a provider of network and application performance management products and services for large organizations, has acquired Helium Systems, a privately held financial trade monitoring software company based in Valencia, Calif.

synopsis: IBM announced it has acquired InfoDyne Corporation, a privately-held software company based in Park Ridge, Illinois. InfoDyne is a leader in high-speed platforms and data feed connectors which combined with IBM's WebSphere technology will help clients extend transactional integrity to low-latency environments.

synopsis: SunGard and GL TRADE announced that SunGard had completed the previously announced acquisition of a majority interest in GL TRADE, a global financial software solutions company.

synopsis: NYSE Euronext announced the closing of its $200 million acquisition of Wombat Financial Software, the technology innovator and world leader in market data management solutions, as previously announced on January 14, 2008. Wombat will join TransactTools as part of the newly formed NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions division.

synopsis: Knight Capital Group, Inc. completed the acquisition of EdgeTrade Inc., a privately-held firm for $59.5 million comprising $29.5 million in cash and approximately 2,285,000 shares of unregistered Knight stock. EdgeTrade is a leading agency-only trade execution and algorithmic software firm.

synopsis: Capital Markets Technologies has acquired a 55% equity stake in iBase Solutions Limited "iBase", a UK based financial solutions company specializing in optimizing post-trade processes for financial institutions. iBase is set to launch a suite of software products and services designed to replace inefficient and costly manual processes.

synopsis: SwallowTech, provider of software and services to the treasury, securities and derivatives markets, today announced that it has acquired Monro Business Software (Monrosoft) a Brussels based competitor.

synopsis: Rush Financial Technologies, Inc., dba RushTrade Group (Rush) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with TAL Financial Services, LLC (TFS) to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of Terra Nova Trading, LLC (Terra Nova), Market Wise Securities, LLC and Market Wise Stock Trading School, LLC.

synopsis: SS&C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced it has closed the acquisition of OMR Systems Corporation and OMR Systems International Limited (OMR), subsidiaries of ADP Financial Information Services, Inc. In Europe and the U.S., OMR is a leading provider of treasury processing software and outsourcing solutions to banks.

synopsis: The Carlyle Group announced that it has acquired ITRS Group, a global provider of real-time monitoring systems for the world's financial institutions, in partnership with its founders and management. Carlyle will support ITRS' international expansion and is committed to broadening of the Company's specialized product offering.

synopsis: NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies announced the completion of its acquisition of Metabit, a leading Tokyo-based provider of high performance market access products with a trading community of more than 140 trading firms throughout Japan and Asia.

synopsis: SunGard has acquired Fox River Execution, a leading broker dealer that provides algorithmic trading technology and execution solutions to institutional firms trading equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Fox River Execution will augment SunGard’s ability to provide customizable algorithmic trading solutions to help customers.

synopsis: Thomson Reuters announced that it has acquired the assets and business of Aegisoft. Aegisoft has built its business on the Athena product line, a multi-asset trading platform which provides order and execution management, exchange connectivity and foreign exchange aggregation, as well as client and exchange simulators.

synopsis: ICAP plc, the world’s premier interdealer broker, announced an agreement to acquire all the outstanding share capital of TriOptima AB, the leading post-trade financial technology company, for an initial €109 million in cash.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, announced that it has finalized an Asset Purchase Agreement with Aleri Inc. Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions.

synopsis: Aleri and Coral8, two leading providers of complex event processing (CEP) software and solutions, announced that they have joined forces to expand the reach and increase the speed of innovation for next-generation, real-time event processing technology and solutions.

synopsis: Trading and treasury systems vendor Wall Street Systems has signed an agreement to acquire the wholesale banking business of New York-based Aleri.

synopsis: SAP AG announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today's explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, announced that it has finalized an Asset Purchase Agreement with Aleri Inc. Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, announced that it has acquired paybox solutions AG, a global leader in mobile payment solutions.

synopsis: Sybase iAnywhere today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Coboplan, a market-leading Japanese provider of Geographic Information System software solutions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has acquired certain assets from Singapore-based iFoundry Systems, a privately held engineering services company focused on designing, developing and building wireless mobility solutions, in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, completed the acquisition of Mobile 365, Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $417 million. Net of acquired cash, the transaction is valued at $397 million. Mobile 365 will now operate as Sybase 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based Solonde AG, a privately held provider of powerful next-generation solutions for data integration and interface management needs, in an all cash transaction. The transaction closed on June 12, 2006.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Extended Systems Incorporated, a leading provider of mobile software solutions, in a cash merger with a total diluted equity value of approximately $71.3 million, or $4.460847 per share.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced continued investment in its information management technology portfolio with the acquisition of the technology and assets of Avaki Corporation, a market-leading, privately held provider of enterprise information integration (EII) software.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc. SY, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Dejima, Inc., a leading provider of mobile access solutions using natural language interface technology.

synopsis: HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trustgenix, Inc., a leading provider of federated identity management solutions. Upon the closing of the acquisition, HP plans to integrate Trustgenix and its software solutions into the HP OpenView management software portfolio.

synopsis: Oracle announced additions to its best-in-class identity management suite designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across all industries. With the acquisition of OctetString, a leading provider of virtual directory software, Oracle has significantly strengthened its portfolio of industry-leading identity and access management products.

synopsis: BakBone Software a global provider of data protection software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Constant Data, Inc. of Hopkins, Minnesota. The acquisition marks BakBone's entry into the data replication and high availability software market.

synopsis: IBM Corp. said Wednesday that it has acquired Collation, a privately-held manufacturer of information technology software, for an undisclosed amount. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said that the deal will strengthen its systems-management software portfolio and increase its ability to simplify the way companies manage their infrastructures.

synopsis: CA announced that it has completed its acquisition of Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the successful completion of its tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of NEON Systems, Inc., by a subsidiary of Progress.

synopsis: Shah Capital Partners, a technology private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Ingenient Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of embedded multimedia software solutions for delivering video, audio and data on a range of platforms.

synopsis: Iron Mountain Incorporated today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Marlborough, Mass.-based LiveVault Corporation. LiveVault is a leading provider of disk-based online server backup and recovery solutions for small and mid-size businesses and for corporations with remote offices.

synopsis: Aperture, the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers, has announced the completion of its acquisition by Emerson, effective March 25, 2008. This follows shareholder approval of the acquisition proposal first announced on February 25, 2008.

synopsis: Oracle Corporation announced that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.

synopsis: Enea a world leading provider of telecom software and services, has acquired Swedish QiValue Technologies, a leading provider of Linux solutions. The acquisition will bolster Enea’s Linux expertise, strengthen its software offering, and increase Enea’s ability to offer Embedded Linux solutions.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization has acquired the intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and associated product rights for RTLinux, the software industry’s only commercially-available, patented, hard real-time Linux technology developed by Finite State Machine Labs, Inc.

synopsis: Cisco Systems Inc., maker of networking and communications products, is buying approximately an 80 percent stake in Nuova Systems for $50 million. Nuova, based in Santa Clara, Calif. and founded by former Cisco executives, develops next-generation data systems.

synopsis: Clerity Solutions, Inc. has acquired Sun Microsystems' mainframe rehosting business. On June 30, 2006, Clerity acquired the intellectual property assets and hired Sun employees directly involved in the mainframe rehosting solution business.

synopsis: DCSD is the business unit of Diebold, Incorporated dedicated to campus card and housing management systems for colleges and universities.

synopsis: SAP AG announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today's explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions.

synopsis: VMware, Inc. and EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business.

synopsis: UnXis, Inc. announced that the purchase of The SCO Group, Inc. operating assets and intellectual property rights has been successfully completed. The SCO Group is a leading provider of software technology for distributed, embedded, network-based systems.

synopsis: Harman International Industries Incorporated, the global audio and infotainment group, announced the sale of its software operating systems unit, QNX Software Systems. Harman has sold the business to Research In Motion Limited of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, for US$200M.

synopsis: Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in Cell Broadband Engine™ based solutions, announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Terra Soft Solutions, the world renowned developer of Yellow Dog Linux.