In June this year, Oracle announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire MICROS Systems for a whopping amount believed to be around $5 billion. This puts MICROS as the largest acquisition for Oracle, in a series of many, since it bought SUN Microsystems in 2010 and is still way short of what it paid for PeopleSoft. So what exactly made Oracle splash the not just the millions but the billions?
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