{"id":5180,"date":"2012-12-20T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2492505"},"modified":"2012-12-20T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:18:00","slug":"cloud-computing-oracle-buys-eloqua-for-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-oracle-buys-eloqua-for-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Oracle Buys Eloqua for the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>automation and revenue performance management software.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s agreed to pay $23.50 a share, a 31% premium over Eloqua\u2019s close Wednesday. Oracle said it would lay out $871 net of Eloqua\u2019s cash. It seems we might figure about $811 million.<br \/>\nEloqua, which got started in 2000, only IPO\u2019d 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 \u201chas a history of losses and has warned it may not be consistently profitable in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2492505\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>automation and revenue performance management software.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s agreed to pay $23.50 a share, a 31% premium over Eloqua\u2019s close Wednesday. Oracle said it would lay out $871 net of Eloqua\u2019s cash. It seems we might figure about $811 million.<br \/>\nEloqua, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}