Posted on Friday, April 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
The worldwide enterprise applications market saw a spectacular amount of merger and acquisition activities in 2005, according to new IDC research. The study finds the number of deals in 2005 climbed to 199, compared with 144 in 2004, and the value of these deals more than doubled to over $36 billion. In addition, there were seven deals worth more than $1 billion in 2005, compared with only one in 2004.
