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Microsoft Buys Local Maker of Database Software

Aliso Viejo’s Datallegro Inc., a reseller of servers loaded with its database software, is set to be bought by Microsoft Corp.

Terms of the deal, which is set to close next month, were not disclosed.

Datallegro sells data storage racks loaded with computers that have its software on them. The racks, computers and software are designed to be installed in companies’ server rooms.

Its software is geared toward big companies that need to store, organize and retrieve huge volumes of historical data, such as banks, manufacturers, retailers and telecommunication companies.

Datallegro has landed deals in the past year with some of the biggest names in data storage, including EMC Corp., Dell Inc. and French technology goods distributor Bull.

One of its biggest retail customers is Sears Holdings Corp., parent of the Sears chain of department stores.

Datallegro got its start in 2004 and has raised more than $65 million in venture funding to date. It’s most recent $20 million round was announced in May.

Investors include Hillman Co. Adams Capital Management, Focus Ventures, Intel Corp.’s venture arm, Jafco Ventures, Palomar Ventures and Venrock Associates.

The privately held company doesn’t disclose sales.

It competes with Framingham, Mass.-based Natezza Corp., which went public last year on the New York Stock Exchange’s Archipelago Exchange, an electronic trading system.

The giant in the market is Teradata Corp., a Dayton, Ohio-based public company with nearly $2 billion in sales and a recent market value of about $4 billion.

The company is set to be folded into Microsoft’s software group.

Microsoft said it “will retain most of DATAllegro’s team” and its local headquarters, which has some 100 workers.

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