Most Expensive Software Acquisitions

Biggest software company acquisitions

Dell acquires EMC

$67 Billion

Dell's record-setting $67B acquisition of EMC remains the largest software industry deal.

$34 Billion

IBM's $34B purchase of Red Hat open-source software provides major cloud infrastructure boost.

$27.7 Billion

Salesforce's $27.7B deal integrated popular messaging app Slack into its enterprise platform.

$26 Billion

Microsoft's all-cash $26B acquisition of LinkedIn expanded its enterprise and professional tools.

$21.8 Billion

Facebook's $21.8B deal to acquire WhatsApp gave it global messaging dominance.

$15.7 Billion

Salesforce's $15.7B acquisition added powerful data-visualisation capabilities to its cloud portfolio.

$7.5 Billion

Microsoft's $7.5B deal secured the world's most popular software development platform.

$7.4 Billion

Oracle's $7.4B takeover of Sun gave it control over Java, MySQL and hardware systems.

$7.3 Billion

European Just Eat Takeaway paid $7.3B for US food-delivery icon Grubhub in 2020.

$7.2 Billion

Microsoft's $7.2B acquisition of Nokia's mobile division failed to restore handset market leadership.