Acquisition Stats

Top Acquirers

Date	Target	Acquirer	Price
10/07	Cytyc	Hologic	$6.2B
1/06	Siebel Systems	Oracle Corporation	$5.85B
5/10	Sybase	SAP	$5.8B
9/09	Affiliated Computer Services	Xerox	$5.75B
11/99	Broadcast.com	Yahoo!	$5.04B
5/11	Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates	Applied Materials	$4.9B
12/09	Sanyo	Panasonic	$4.6B
7/06	Mercury Interactive	Hewlett-Packard	$4.5B
5/12	Ariba	SAP AG	$4.3B
12/06	Sabre	Silver Lake Partners & Texas Pacific Group	$4.3B
11/98	Netscape	AOL	$4.2B
7/09	Merial Limited	Sanofi Aventis	$4B
8/09	Marvel Entertainment	The Walt Disney Company	$4B
1/10	Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM)	KDDI	$4B
2/09	Sterling Commerce	AT&T	$3.9B
1/12	Thomas & Betts	ABB	$3.9B
9/09	Perot Systems	Dell	$3.9B
9/11	NetLogic Microsystems	Broadcom	$3.7B
4/12	Gen-Probe	Hologic	$3.7B
4/09	Stiefel	GlaxoSmithKline	$3.6B
10/10	King Pharmaceuticals	Pfizer	$3.6B
7/08	The Weather Channel	NBC Universal	$3.5B
1995	Lotus Development Corporation	IBM	$3.5B
5/10	Interactive Data	Silverlake & Warburg Pincus	$3.4B
10/09	Tandberg	Cisco	$3.4B