BMC Software, Compuware and now Tibco: Why are more and more software companies being taken over by private equity?
Private equity investors have got their eyes set on under-performing companies in the software sector
When BMC Software was acquired by a duo of private equity companies in 2013, it was an eye-opener, but little more. But then this summer Compuware, too, fell into the hands of private equity, quickly followed...
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