Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD) is reportedly in negotiations with a private equity firm for a potential acquisition, Reuters said this week. According to reports in the financial press, the storage and networking infrastructure vendor has been working with Qatalyst Partners, the boutique investment bank run by Frank P. Quattrone, to shop itself around for two years, including several failed acquisition attempts with companies such as Hewlett-Packard. However, an analyst who follows the company believes that such an acquisition, if it occurs, would have much less effect on users than would an acquisition by Oracle, which is another rumor going around.
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