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From: JakeStraw4/16/2010 9:03:35 AM
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Oracle to buy drug-trial software company Phase Forward for $685 million
finance.yahoo.com

Friday April 16, 2010, 8:37 am

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) -- Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy Phase Forward Inc., which makes software used to manage clinical drug trials, for $685 million, the companies said Friday.

Oracle, the leading maker of database software, plans to merge Waltham-based Phase Forward into its Health Sciences unit. The combination will help researchers, physicians, regulators and patients share and access drug data, the companies said.
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