{"id":7285,"date":"2013-05-06T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2645762"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:03:00","slug":"bmc-goes-for-6-9-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/bmc-goes-for-6-9-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC Goes for $6.9 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMC Software is getting sold to a group of private equity investors led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for roughly $6.9 billion or $46.24 a share, a higher price than the $6.5 billion expected.<br \/>\nThe buyers also include Singapore\u2019s sovereign wealth fund GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners, which focuses its investments on e-commerce, Internet, on-premise and SaaS-based software and data-services companies.<br \/>\nThe final details of what was already a binding offer were reportedly worked out over the weekend. The debt financing is coming from Credit Suisse, RBC Capital Markets and Barclays.<br \/>\nAlthough BMC\u2019s board approved the deal, it\u2019s still got 30 calendar days to solicit alternative proposals from third parties. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2645762\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMC Software is getting sold to a group of private equity investors led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital for roughly $6.9 billion or $46.24 a share, a higher price than the $6.5 billion expected.<br \/>\nThe buyers also include Singapore\u2019s sovereign &#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-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","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=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}