automation and revenue performance management software.
It’s agreed to pay $23.50 a share, a 31% premium over Eloqua’s close Wednesday. Oracle said it would lay out $871 net of Eloqua’s cash. It seems we might figure about $811 million.
Eloqua, which got started in 2000, only IPO’d in August, raising $92 million at about $12 a share so Oracle is paying close to double the IPO price. The Wall Street Journal said it “has a history of losses and has warned it may not be consistently profitable in the future.”