Deal Scores To-Date

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Here's a tally of the Deal Scores we've published these past four years together with a summary of observations. The outliers with the lowest scores:

• 5% score - Cisco and Pure Digital - buying a consumer electronics business was and is a bad idea for an enterprise equipment company.
• 20% score - Microsoft and TellMe - buying a hosted voice recognition company didn't seem to fit into the Microsoft core competency.
• 25% score - Cisco again, this time acquiring PostPath an email server competitor to Microsoft Exchange. Not a fit.

Our analysis methodology tends to reward companies that acquire companies in related markets serving similar customers but adding either new technologies or new channels.

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