July 18 News, IT giant IBM said the company's software to other companies with links to the database functions, will be 161 million U.S. dollars to buy Canadian software maker DataMirror Corporation.
According to foreign media reports, IBM is actively trying to expand through the acquisition of the company's software revenue, said it would buy 25.78 U.S. dollars per share, DataMirror common shares of all listed. The deal must now be approved by regulators and shareholders agree, the two companies expect the deal in the third quarter.
IBM DataMirror Corporation's most attractive is its extensive support for various data. DataMirror's data integration support for Windows, Unix, IBM, System i server and a variety of hosts, and supports IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase and other database companies. DataMirror company also has its own Java database that PointBase.
DataMirror's technology, IBM hopes to help its links and analysis of other databases in real-time data to identify changes in these databases and publish real-time database of other companies, changes in the signal. This feature can provide more current data in the database, thus making the latest information.
Located in the city of Markham, Ontario, Canada DataMirror company has 2,200 customers and 220 employees.
General manager of IBM information management software Chapel Jige Ya (Ambuj Goyal), said: "DataMirror and IBM's combined companies can bring our customers real-time analysis of business data, make them more competitive, has been standing in the forefront of the times."
DataMirror's technology can be identified, developed and capture the Yi Jing is added, updated or deleted Liao data, and changes in time of Jiang data provided to the program, application software and Shu Juku, etc., these technologies will be used in the data Ji Cheng servers IBM (IBM Information Server) in the. This IBM's data integration server is launched in October last year, is designed to provide customers the information they need anytime, anywhere.
For data integration server, IBM has acquired Alphablox Corporation, Ascential Software Corporation and the Unicorn Solutions Inc., now plans to acquire DataMirror Corporation is to further improve its Information on Demand program.
IBM's data integration server is the core of Information on Demand program. IBM said in 2009 that the market will reach 69 billion U.S. dollars.