Ibm To Buy Spss For $1.2 Billion

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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 9:38am

IBM plans to buy business analytics company SPSS Inc for $1.2 billion in cash to better compete with Oracle Corp. and SAP AG in the growing field of business intelligence.

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