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ORCL -0.41% is in talks to buy electronic-medical-records company Cerner Corp. CERN 0.7","content":"<p>Oracle Corp. ORCL -0.41% is in talks to buy electronic-medical-records company Cerner Corp. CERN 0.72% , according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that could be worth around $30 billion and push the enterprise-software giant further into healthcare.</p><p><blockquote>据知情人士透露，甲骨文公司正在就收购电子医疗记录公司Cerner Corp.CERN 0.72%进行谈判，这笔交易可能价值约300亿美元，并将推动这家企业软件巨头进一步进入医疗保健领域。</blockquote></p><p> An agreement could be finalized soon, some of the people said, assuming the talks don’t fall apart or drag out. Should a deal come together, it would rank as the biggest ever for Oracle, which has a market value of more than $280 billion.</p><p><blockquote>一些知情人士表示，如果谈判不会破裂或拖延，协议可能很快就会敲定。如果这笔交易达成，这将成为甲骨文有史以来最大的一笔交易，该公司的市值超过2800亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner designs software that hospitals and doctors use to store and analyze medical records and other healthcare data. It has a market value of around $23 billion. With a typical takeover premium, a deal would be expected to value the company at something like $30 billion, though exact terms being discussed couldn’t be learned.</p><p><blockquote>总部位于密苏里州堪萨斯城的Cerner设计了医院和医生用来存储和分析医疗记录和其他医疗保健数据的软件。它的市值约为230亿美元。按照典型的收购溢价，一笔交易预计将使该公司估值约为300亿美元，但正在讨论的确切条款无法得知。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle, a Silicon Valley veteran that last year moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, is one of the biggest software providers to other companies and organizations.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文是一家硅谷老牌企业，去年将总部迁至德克萨斯州奥斯汀，是其他公司和组织最大的软件提供商之一。</blockquote></p><p> In August, Cerner tapped David Feinberg as chief executive officer, a role he assumed in October. Mr. Feinberg came from Oracle rival Google, where he had led the Alphabet Inc. unit’s push into healthcare and helped strike partnerships with some of the country’s largest hospital systems to collect and analyze their data.</p><p><blockquote>8月，Cerner任命David Feinberg为首席执行官，他于10月就任该职位。范伯格先生来自甲骨文的竞争对手谷歌，他曾领导Alphabet公司进军医疗保健领域，并帮助与美国一些最大的医院系统建立合作伙伴关系，以收集和分析他们的数据。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle already has a significant presence in healthcare, offering technology meant to help health insurers, healthcare providers and public health systems parse data to increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes.</p><p><blockquote>Oracle已经在医疗保健领域占据了重要地位，提供旨在帮助健康保险公司、医疗保健提供商和公共卫生系统解析数据以提高效率和改善患者结果的技术。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle shares closed Thursday at $103.22, down slightly amid a broad-based tech selloff and just off an all-time high reached the day before. They jumped over 15% last week when the company reported fiscal-second-quarter results that topped estimates and Chief Executive Safra Catz reiterated the expectation that full-year revenue growth would accelerate from the year earlier. Ms. Catz, who became the sole CEO in 2019, said she expects the company’s operating margins to be the same or better than they were pre-pandemic.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文股价周四收于103.22美元，在广泛的科技股抛售中小幅下跌，刚刚脱离前一天创下的历史高点。上周，该公司公布的第二财季业绩超出预期，首席执行官Safra Catz重申了全年收入增长将较上年同期加速的预期，股价上涨了15%以上。卡茨女士于2019年成为唯一首席执行官，她表示，她预计公司的营业利润率将与大流行前持平或更好。</blockquote></p><p> The company also increased the authorization for share repurchases by $10 billion.</p><p><blockquote>该公司还将股票回购授权增加了100亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Buying Cerner could help Oracle with its pivot toward the cloud. Investors have warmed to Oracle as the company ramps up its focus on winning cloud-computing business, after initially being slow to embrace the booming market for storing and analyzing data on remote servers. Oracle has been trying to make up ground in recent years after falling behind companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. , which both now have market values well exceeding $1 trillion thanks in part to thriving cloud units.</p><p><blockquote>收购Cerner可以帮助甲骨文转向云计算。随着甲骨文加大对赢得云计算业务的关注，投资者对该公司产生了热情，此前该公司最初在拥抱蓬勃发展的远程服务器上存储和分析数据市场方面进展缓慢。甲骨文在落后于亚马逊公司和微软公司等公司后，近年来一直试图弥补这一差距，这两家公司的市值现在都远远超过1万亿美元，部分原因是云部门的蓬勃发展。</blockquote></p><p> A deal for Cerner would follow Microsoft’s agreement in April to buy artificial-intelligence company Nuance Communications Inc. for $16 billion, in a bet on the growing demand for digital healthcare tools.</p><p><blockquote>在收购Cerner之前，微软于4月份同意以160亿美元收购人工智能公司Nuance Communications Inc.，押注于对数字医疗工具不断增长的需求。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle was founded by outspoken billionaire Larry Ellison and others in 1977. Mr. Ellison owns roughly 42% of the company’s shares, a stake that is worth well over $100 billion. Mr. Ellison passed the CEO reins to Ms. Catz and the late Mark Hurd in 2014, but remains chairman and chief technology officer.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文由直言不讳的亿万富翁拉里·埃里森等人于1977年创立。埃里森先生拥有该公司约42%的股份，该股份价值远超1000亿美元。埃里森先生于2014年将首席执行官的权力移交给了卡茨女士和已故的马克·赫德，但仍担任董事长兼首席技术官。</blockquote></p><p> A deal for Cerner would easily top Oracle’s next-largest transaction, the roughly $10 billion purchase of enterprise-software firm PeopleSoft Inc. that closed in 2005, followed by a $9 billion deal for cloud-software provider NetSuite Inc. in 2016.</p><p><blockquote>收购Cerner的交易将轻松超过甲骨文的第二大交易，即2005年以约100亿美元收购企业软件公司PeopleSoft Inc.，随后于2016年以90亿美元收购云软件提供商NetSuite Inc.。</blockquote></p><p> In 2020, Oracle showed an appetite for bigger deals when it beat out Microsoft in bidding for the video-sharing app TikTok’s U.S. operations. The Trump administration’s concerns about TikTok’s Chinese ownership had effectively put the business in play, but the deal was put on hold indefinitely by the Biden administration.</p><p><blockquote>2020年，甲骨文在竞购视频分享应用TikTok的美国业务时击败了微软，表现出了对更大交易的兴趣。特朗普政府对抖音中国所有权的担忧实际上让这项业务发挥了作用，但该交易被拜登政府无限期搁置。</blockquote></p><p> Cerner, founded in 1979, competes with the likes of privately held Epic Systems Corp. and Athenahealth Inc., which recently agreed to a sale to one group of private-equity firms by another for around $17 billion including debt.</p><p><blockquote>Cerner成立于1979年，与私人控股的Epic Systems Corp.和Athenahealth Inc.等公司竞争，后者最近同意由另一家私募股权公司以约170亿美元（包括债务）的价格出售给一家私募股权公司。</blockquote></p><p> Cerner shares rose slightly to $79.49 Thursday.</p><p><blockquote>Cerner股价周四小幅上涨至79.49美元。</blockquote></p><p> An Oracle-Cerner deal would rank as one of the largest takeovers of 2021, which is shaping up to be one of the busiest ever for mergers and acquisitions. Merger activity in the U.S. is up 78% to $2.45 trillion, according to Dealogic, as lofty stock prices and easy money embolden companies to strike deals and special-purpose acquisition companies are formed at a breakneck pace.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文与Cerner的交易将成为2021年最大的收购之一，这将成为有史以来最繁忙的并购之一。Dealogic的数据显示，美国的并购活动增长了78%，达到2.45万亿美元，因为高昂的股价和宽松的资金鼓励公司达成交易，特殊目的收购公司以极快的速度成立。</blockquote></p><p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Oracle in talks to buy Cerner<blockquote>甲骨文正在洽谈收购Cerner</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nOracle in talks to buy Cerner<blockquote>甲骨文正在洽谈收购Cerner</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">The Wall Street Journal</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-12-17 08:05</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Oracle Corp. ORCL -0.41% is in talks to buy electronic-medical-records company Cerner Corp. CERN 0.72% , according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that could be worth around $30 billion and push the enterprise-software giant further into healthcare.</p><p><blockquote>据知情人士透露，甲骨文公司正在就收购电子医疗记录公司Cerner Corp.CERN 0.72%进行谈判，这笔交易可能价值约300亿美元，并将推动这家企业软件巨头进一步进入医疗保健领域。</blockquote></p><p> An agreement could be finalized soon, some of the people said, assuming the talks don’t fall apart or drag out. Should a deal come together, it would rank as the biggest ever for Oracle, which has a market value of more than $280 billion.</p><p><blockquote>一些知情人士表示，如果谈判不会破裂或拖延，协议可能很快就会敲定。如果这笔交易达成，这将成为甲骨文有史以来最大的一笔交易，该公司的市值超过2800亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner designs software that hospitals and doctors use to store and analyze medical records and other healthcare data. It has a market value of around $23 billion. With a typical takeover premium, a deal would be expected to value the company at something like $30 billion, though exact terms being discussed couldn’t be learned.</p><p><blockquote>总部位于密苏里州堪萨斯城的Cerner设计了医院和医生用来存储和分析医疗记录和其他医疗保健数据的软件。它的市值约为230亿美元。按照典型的收购溢价，一笔交易预计将使该公司估值约为300亿美元，但正在讨论的确切条款无法得知。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle, a Silicon Valley veteran that last year moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, is one of the biggest software providers to other companies and organizations.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文是一家硅谷老牌企业，去年将总部迁至德克萨斯州奥斯汀，是其他公司和组织最大的软件提供商之一。</blockquote></p><p> In August, Cerner tapped David Feinberg as chief executive officer, a role he assumed in October. Mr. Feinberg came from Oracle rival Google, where he had led the Alphabet Inc. unit’s push into healthcare and helped strike partnerships with some of the country’s largest hospital systems to collect and analyze their data.</p><p><blockquote>8月，Cerner任命David Feinberg为首席执行官，他于10月就任该职位。范伯格先生来自甲骨文的竞争对手谷歌，他曾领导Alphabet公司进军医疗保健领域，并帮助与美国一些最大的医院系统建立合作伙伴关系，以收集和分析他们的数据。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle already has a significant presence in healthcare, offering technology meant to help health insurers, healthcare providers and public health systems parse data to increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes.</p><p><blockquote>Oracle已经在医疗保健领域占据了重要地位，提供旨在帮助健康保险公司、医疗保健提供商和公共卫生系统解析数据以提高效率和改善患者结果的技术。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle shares closed Thursday at $103.22, down slightly amid a broad-based tech selloff and just off an all-time high reached the day before. They jumped over 15% last week when the company reported fiscal-second-quarter results that topped estimates and Chief Executive Safra Catz reiterated the expectation that full-year revenue growth would accelerate from the year earlier. Ms. Catz, who became the sole CEO in 2019, said she expects the company’s operating margins to be the same or better than they were pre-pandemic.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文股价周四收于103.22美元，在广泛的科技股抛售中小幅下跌，刚刚脱离前一天创下的历史高点。上周，该公司公布的第二财季业绩超出预期，首席执行官Safra Catz重申了全年收入增长将较上年同期加速的预期，股价上涨了15%以上。卡茨女士于2019年成为唯一首席执行官，她表示，她预计公司的营业利润率将与大流行前持平或更好。</blockquote></p><p> The company also increased the authorization for share repurchases by $10 billion.</p><p><blockquote>该公司还将股票回购授权增加了100亿美元。</blockquote></p><p> Buying Cerner could help Oracle with its pivot toward the cloud. Investors have warmed to Oracle as the company ramps up its focus on winning cloud-computing business, after initially being slow to embrace the booming market for storing and analyzing data on remote servers. Oracle has been trying to make up ground in recent years after falling behind companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. , which both now have market values well exceeding $1 trillion thanks in part to thriving cloud units.</p><p><blockquote>收购Cerner可以帮助甲骨文转向云计算。随着甲骨文加大对赢得云计算业务的关注，投资者对该公司产生了热情，此前该公司最初在拥抱蓬勃发展的远程服务器上存储和分析数据市场方面进展缓慢。甲骨文在落后于亚马逊公司和微软公司等公司后，近年来一直试图弥补这一差距，这两家公司的市值现在都远远超过1万亿美元，部分原因是云部门的蓬勃发展。</blockquote></p><p> A deal for Cerner would follow Microsoft’s agreement in April to buy artificial-intelligence company Nuance Communications Inc. for $16 billion, in a bet on the growing demand for digital healthcare tools.</p><p><blockquote>在收购Cerner之前，微软于4月份同意以160亿美元收购人工智能公司Nuance Communications Inc.，押注于对数字医疗工具不断增长的需求。</blockquote></p><p> Oracle was founded by outspoken billionaire Larry Ellison and others in 1977. Mr. Ellison owns roughly 42% of the company’s shares, a stake that is worth well over $100 billion. Mr. Ellison passed the CEO reins to Ms. Catz and the late Mark Hurd in 2014, but remains chairman and chief technology officer.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文由直言不讳的亿万富翁拉里·埃里森等人于1977年创立。埃里森先生拥有该公司约42%的股份，该股份价值远超1000亿美元。埃里森先生于2014年将首席执行官的权力移交给了卡茨女士和已故的马克·赫德，但仍担任董事长兼首席技术官。</blockquote></p><p> A deal for Cerner would easily top Oracle’s next-largest transaction, the roughly $10 billion purchase of enterprise-software firm PeopleSoft Inc. that closed in 2005, followed by a $9 billion deal for cloud-software provider NetSuite Inc. in 2016.</p><p><blockquote>收购Cerner的交易将轻松超过甲骨文的第二大交易，即2005年以约100亿美元收购企业软件公司PeopleSoft Inc.，随后于2016年以90亿美元收购云软件提供商NetSuite Inc.。</blockquote></p><p> In 2020, Oracle showed an appetite for bigger deals when it beat out Microsoft in bidding for the video-sharing app TikTok’s U.S. operations. The Trump administration’s concerns about TikTok’s Chinese ownership had effectively put the business in play, but the deal was put on hold indefinitely by the Biden administration.</p><p><blockquote>2020年，甲骨文在竞购视频分享应用TikTok的美国业务时击败了微软，表现出了对更大交易的兴趣。特朗普政府对抖音中国所有权的担忧实际上让这项业务发挥了作用，但该交易被拜登政府无限期搁置。</blockquote></p><p> Cerner, founded in 1979, competes with the likes of privately held Epic Systems Corp. and Athenahealth Inc., which recently agreed to a sale to one group of private-equity firms by another for around $17 billion including debt.</p><p><blockquote>Cerner成立于1979年，与私人控股的Epic Systems Corp.和Athenahealth Inc.等公司竞争，后者最近同意由另一家私募股权公司以约170亿美元（包括债务）的价格出售给一家私募股权公司。</blockquote></p><p> Cerner shares rose slightly to $79.49 Thursday.</p><p><blockquote>Cerner股价周四小幅上涨至79.49美元。</blockquote></p><p> An Oracle-Cerner deal would rank as one of the largest takeovers of 2021, which is shaping up to be one of the busiest ever for mergers and acquisitions. Merger activity in the U.S. is up 78% to $2.45 trillion, according to Dealogic, as lofty stock prices and easy money embolden companies to strike deals and special-purpose acquisition companies are formed at a breakneck pace.</p><p><blockquote>甲骨文与Cerner的交易将成为2021年最大的收购之一，这将成为有史以来最繁忙的并购之一。Dealogic的数据显示，美国的并购活动增长了78%，达到2.45万亿美元，因为高昂的股价和宽松的资金鼓励公司达成交易，特殊目的收购公司以极快的速度成立。</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-in-talks-to-buy-cerner-11639697730?mod=hp_lead_pos2\">The Wall Street Journal</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4528":"SaaS概念","BK4516":"特朗普概念","BK4097":"系统软件","BK4534":"瑞士信贷持仓","BK4167":"医疗保健技术","BK4504":"桥水持仓","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","BK4538":"云计算","ORCL":"甲骨文","CERN":"美国塞纳"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-in-talks-to-buy-cerner-11639697730?mod=hp_lead_pos2","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2192947044","content_text":"Oracle Corp. ORCL -0.41% is in talks to buy electronic-medical-records company Cerner Corp. CERN 0.72% , according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that could be worth around $30 billion and push the enterprise-software giant further into healthcare.\n\nAn agreement could be finalized soon, some of the people said, assuming the talks don’t fall apart or drag out. Should a deal come together, it would rank as the biggest ever for Oracle, which has a market value of more than $280 billion.\n\nKansas City, Mo.-based Cerner designs software that hospitals and doctors use to store and analyze medical records and other healthcare data. It has a market value of around $23 billion. With a typical takeover premium, a deal would be expected to value the company at something like $30 billion, though exact terms being discussed couldn’t be learned.\n\nOracle, a Silicon Valley veteran that last year moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas, is one of the biggest software providers to other companies and organizations.\nIn August, Cerner tapped David Feinberg as chief executive officer, a role he assumed in October. Mr. Feinberg came from Oracle rival Google, where he had led the Alphabet Inc. unit’s push into healthcare and helped strike partnerships with some of the country’s largest hospital systems to collect and analyze their data.\n\nOracle already has a significant presence in healthcare, offering technology meant to help health insurers, healthcare providers and public health systems parse data to increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes.\n\n\nOracle shares closed Thursday at $103.22, down slightly amid a broad-based tech selloff and just off an all-time high reached the day before. They jumped over 15% last week when the company reported fiscal-second-quarter results that topped estimates and Chief Executive Safra Catz reiterated the expectation that full-year revenue growth would accelerate from the year earlier. Ms. Catz, who became the sole CEO in 2019, said she expects the company’s operating margins to be the same or better than they were pre-pandemic.\n\nThe company also increased the authorization for share repurchases by $10 billion.\n\nBuying Cerner could help Oracle with its pivot toward the cloud. Investors have warmed to Oracle as the company ramps up its focus on winning cloud-computing business, after initially being slow to embrace the booming market for storing and analyzing data on remote servers. Oracle has been trying to make up ground in recent years after falling behind companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. , which both now have market values well exceeding $1 trillion thanks in part to thriving cloud units.\n\nA deal for Cerner would follow Microsoft’s agreement in April to buy artificial-intelligence company Nuance Communications Inc. for $16 billion, in a bet on the growing demand for digital healthcare tools.\n\nOracle was founded by outspoken billionaire Larry Ellison and others in 1977. Mr. Ellison owns roughly 42% of the company’s shares, a stake that is worth well over $100 billion. Mr. Ellison passed the CEO reins to Ms. Catz and the late Mark Hurd in 2014, but remains chairman and chief technology officer.\n\nA deal for Cerner would easily top Oracle’s next-largest transaction, the roughly $10 billion purchase of enterprise-software firm PeopleSoft Inc. that closed in 2005, followed by a $9 billion deal for cloud-software provider NetSuite Inc. in 2016.\n\nIn 2020, Oracle showed an appetite for bigger deals when it beat out Microsoft in bidding for the video-sharing app TikTok’s U.S. operations. The Trump administration’s concerns about TikTok’s Chinese ownership had effectively put the business in play, but the deal was put on hold indefinitely by the Biden administration.\n\nCerner, founded in 1979, competes with the likes of privately held Epic Systems Corp. and Athenahealth Inc., which recently agreed to a sale to one group of private-equity firms by another for around $17 billion including debt.\n\nCerner shares rose slightly to $79.49 Thursday.\n\n\nAn Oracle-Cerner deal would rank as one of the largest takeovers of 2021, which is shaping up to be one of the busiest ever for mergers and acquisitions. Merger activity in the U.S. is up 78% to $2.45 trillion, according to Dealogic, as lofty stock prices and easy money embolden companies to strike deals and special-purpose acquisition companies are formed at a breakneck pace.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"ORCL":0.9,"CERN":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":514,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":2,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/699740272"}
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