Oracle buys ClearApp, appears intent on owning everything

The last time I spoke to an Oracle bigwig they told me that the only way for them to continue to grow at such a furious pace was to buy companies that had meaningful revenue--upwards of $300 million is what it takes to move the needle even a little bit when you are talking billions.

Today's acquisition of ClearApp is a bit curious considering Oracle already has 3 products in the space as well as additional assets from BEA. I can only guess that ClearApp was cheap enough to fill a piece of the puzzle that Oracle wasn't comfortable not having--or that they were competitive enough to be important (which I highly doubt.)

The acquisition of ClearApp technology is expected to extend Oracle's application management solution to provide visibility of transactions across all application components. The combination is intended to help customers discover end-to-end business services and component dependencies in runtime, monitor business service performance and diagnose performance issues quickly. ClearApp products and Oracle Enterprise Manager, combined with Oracle's recently acquired products from Moniforce and Auptyma, are expected to offer customers a top-down application management solution that provides comprehensive management of their standards-based applications and integrations.

I would also guess that the better known SOA management vendors like SOA software and Amberpoint were more expensive thatn Oracle was willing to pay. It's hard to say if this is consolidation or just an exit for ClearApp.

Via Infoworld