IBM Corp. is expanding its Orange County empire by buying Swedish business software maker Telelogic AB, which has its U.S. headquarters in Irvine.
Big Blue is paying about $750 million for Telelogic, about 20% more than what the company was trading at before it entered acquisition talks.
Telelogic makes software that helps businesses speed up their own product and software development. The company’s Telelogic North America Inc. unit is based in the Irvine Spectrum, where it has about 85 workers.
The company has yearly sales of about $200 million. The Irvine office makes up more than half of Telelogic’s sales.
Customers include Boeing Co., General Motors Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp.
IBM already has about 2,000 workers in Orange County, a figure that nearly doubled with last year’s $1.5 billion buy of Costa Mesa business software maker FileNet Corp.
Big Blue made FileNet’s Costa Mesa campus into the headquarters for a unit that produces enterprise content management software, which is used to manage various types of data. Several IBM workers shifted to Costa Mesa as part of the move.
