急求有关企业合并 英文文献~~中英文对照最好~

You may be having difficulty keeping track of it all. Every week, it seems, someone is buying someone else. This ongoing activity has taken on enough durability and high-profile to be readily identified as an important trend. Sometimes it’s referred to as “Industry Convergence.” At other times, it’s been referred to less elegantly as a “software rummage sale.” (Some of this action has, in fact, been in the hardware or services market, but most of our remarks will be about the software market.)

In fact, several different things are going on and it’s useful to notice that.

The combination of the dot.com bust, which cut off most venture capital funding to software firms (especially to early and mid-stage firms) and a down economy, made a lot of companies with good ideas very short of cash. Unable to raise cash through new investment rounds in either the venture or the IPO markets, they have been forced to seek partners with deeper pockets.

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