IBM buys COGNOS

After SAP bought Business Objects, now it’s IBM’s turn to make an acquisition of another great Business Intelligence vendor in the market: COGNOS. eWeek had an interesting post on the topic of how this fits into the IBM offerings - you can read more on that here:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2215825,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL111507EOAD?kc=EWWHNEMNL111507STR2

and

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2215685,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL111507EOAD

The deal was worth $5 billion.