Article: McData acquired by rival Brocade Deal for Broomfield tech company valued at $713 million.(Business)

Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News

McData Corp., the last big player in Colorado's storied data-storage industry, agreed to be sold to larger rival Brocade Communications Systems Inc. of Silicon Valley for about $713 million.

The all-stock deal marks the final chapter for Broomfield-based McData, founded in 1982 by six former Storage Technology Corp. executives.

And it marks the loss of another Colorado-based tech company swept up in merger activity. Sun Microsystems bought homegrown StorageTek last year for $4.1 billion, and PeopleSoft Inc. - which was itself acquired by Oracle Corp. - bought Denver software maker J.D. Edwards & Co. ...

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