PC for business: Oracle drops $500m on startup Ravello Systems

Monday 29 February 2016

Oracle drops $500m on startup Ravello Systems

Oracle drops $500m on cloud startup Ravello Systems, beats Dell and EMC to the punch

Oracle recently paid big for Ravello Systems. The tiny startup has the potential to disrupt the virtualization industry.

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