Automated Test Tool Vendors Continue To Get Gobbled Up

Over the last several years, we have seen many big software players like IBM, HP, and Borland, acquire most of the larger automation tool vendors (Rational, Mercury, Segue, respectively).

Oracle just followed suit with their announcement to buy acquire the e-TEST suite products from Empirix:

http://www.oracle.com/empirix/index.html

I guess it was just a matter of time.  It will be interesting to see where all of this is going.