Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy
Siebel Systems Inc. for $10.66 per share. The offer is valued at approximately $5.85 billion, or $3.61 billion net of Siebel's cash on hand of $2.24 billion. The move is seen as a way of strengthening both companies' position in the market for customer relationship management (CRM) applications, a niche Siebel once dominated but that is now increasingly seen as the province of enterprise software giant
SAP as well as
Salesforce.com, a company that sells hosted services rather than software.
Before the ink was dry on the Siebel deal, Oracle also added G-Log, a vendor of transportation management systems, to its portfolio.
The following scorecard highlights all significant corporate moves in the technology sector since our last update in the July 2005 Logistics Today:
| Company/Product | Parent Company | Transaction Type |
| 3D Inc. | n/a | launch |
| Agility Systems Ltd. | Chelford Group | acquisition |
| Epiphany | SSA Global Technologies, Inc. | acquisition |
| Evant Inc. | Manhattan Associates Inc. | acquisition |
| FieldCentrix | Astea International Inc. | acquisition |
| Formation Systems | Infor | acquisition |
| G-Log | Oracle Corp. | acquisition |
| InfoPower Global | Global Logistics Services/InfoPower International | U.S. launch |
| Notiva Corp. | PerformanceRetail Inc. | merger |
| Orion Information Services Inc. | CellPoint Connect | merger |
| Pfastship Worldwide Logistics | Logicor | acquisition |
| ProfitLogic Inc. | Oracle Corp. | acquisition |
| Prophet 21 Inc. | Activant Solutions Inc. | acquisition |
| Robocom Systems | Avantce RSI | acquisition of assets |
| SeeBeyond Technology Corp. | Sun Microsystems Inc. | acquisition |
| Siebel Systems Inc. | Oracle Corp. | acquisition |
| TrueDemand Software Inc. | n/a | launch |
