{"id":6623,"date":"2013-03-22T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2590023"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:07:00","slug":"bmc-to-be-auctioned-off-taken-private-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/bmc-to-be-auctioned-off-taken-private-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC to Be Auctioned Off &amp; Taken Private: Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Dell struggles to go private, private equity is reportedly staging a run on fellow Texan BMC Software, dying to take the thing private and satisfy Elliott Management, which got Novell sold off to Attachmate a while back.<br \/>\nAccording to Reuters KKR and TPG Capital, which turned their noses up at Dell, have formed a consortium to bid on BMC. So have Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital. Ditto Thoma Bravo, which is said to be participating in still a third consortium.<br \/>\nThe deal is expected to top $6 billion.<br \/>\nWhen the market closed Thursday after the Reuters story circulated and its shares jumped to $45.49 its market cap stood at $6.5 billion.<br \/>\nReuters says the process is past the first round of bids. Final bids are due in a few weeks. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2590023\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Dell struggles to go private, private equity is reportedly staging a run on fellow Texan BMC Software, dying to take the thing private and satisfy Elliott Management, which got Novell sold off to Attachmate a while back.<br \/>\nAccording to Reuters KKR&#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-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","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=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}