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The Motley Fool May 18, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Beating Down BEA The enterprise software firm announced lackluster first-quarter results. Management blamed a weaker IT climate and iffy sales execution. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2005 Tim Beyers |
BEA's Beguiling Earnings There's more to this story than outstanding bottom-line growth. The truth may be that the software company will never again be the kind of growth stock it once was. But it won't go down without a fight. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Icahn Beats Up BEA Why has the legendary corporate activist set his sights on the struggling software developer? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2009 Tim Beyers |
Big Blue's Pink Slip Party Turns Green Who says you can't cut to grow? Once more, IBM is a growth story. |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Beleaguered BEA Middleware developer BEA turns in a good quarter, despite juggling an options investigation and a hostile takeover attempt from Oracle. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
InternetNews March 25, 2004 Clint Boulton |
BEA Goes Pro with Java Workshop Software maker crafts a development suite for users looking to write Java applications for small-scale deployment. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2004 Tim Goh |
BEA Systems Bucks Up The software company's stock rises on improved second-quarter numbers. |
InternetNews October 26, 2007 Christopher Saunders |
BEA Bites Back in Oracle Bid BEA Systems shrugs off Oracle's lambasting over its counterproposal. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Jim Kerstetter |
BEA: A Little Down In The Valley Not long ago the software maker BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS ) seemed unstoppable. Now rivals are gaining ground. Rather than reassessing his strategies in the face of widespread evidence that they're not working, CEO Alfred Chuang is determined to stay the course. |
InternetNews October 29, 2007 Sean Gallagher |
Time Runs Out on Oracle Bid For BEA Oracle's bid for BEA expired over the weekend, leaving many to speculate about BEA's future. And at least one of BEA's largest stockholders is on the warpath. |
InternetNews July 26, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
IDC: IBM Brings up the Middle Big Blue led the application deployment software market with $7 billion in middleware revenue last year. BEA and Oracle also had strong showings. |
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Clint Boulton |
BEA Lifts Income 11% in Q3 BEA Systems posted a third quarter profit of 11 percent compared to last year, thanks to an uptick in licenses and services for its new AquaLogic product line. |
The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Icahn Is Crazy for Snubbing Oracle A bid for BEA is one thing. But a bidding war? No way. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews November 16, 2007 Larry Barrett |
Oracle Content Without BEA Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison made it clear the company has no intention to sweeten its original offer for BEA Systems. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 Tom Taulli |
A Scary Vignette for Investors Though the software developer has been revamping its business, there are signs that its efforts may be coming undone. Investors have grown alarmed as the company's stock price plunged following its first-quarter earnings results. |
InternetNews November 30, 2009 |
Server Market Descent Slows The two bits of good news in the third quarter server market survey from Gartner is that the decline in sales and average selling prices has slowed considerably. The bad news is that both figures are still dropping. |
InternetNews October 23, 2007 Sean Gallagher |
Oracle Threatens to Walk Away from BEA Deal President Charles Phillips says Oracle has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA. |
InternetNews November 14, 2007 Larry Barrett |
BEA to File Past-Due Financial Reports BEA Systems will try to save its Nasdaq listing and protect itself from future proxy fights with shareholders. |
InternetNews October 12, 2007 Larry Barrett |
Oracle Raises Stakes With BEA Offer Oracle is looking to trump SAP, making a $6.7 billion bid for BEA less than a week after its rival paid a similarly hefty sum for Business Objects. |
InternetNews November 15, 2007 |
Oracle: BEA Worth Less Than Original Offer Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison says any new bid would be below Oracle's initial $17-per-share proposal. |
The Motley Fool August 15, 2006 Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: BEA Systems With its sights set on the blossoming service-oriented architecture market, this experienced player rarely surprises investors. Will it be the same when the company reports is fiscal second-quarter 2006 earnings tonight? |
InternetNews August 4, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
BEA's CTO Swap Mark Carges to replace the outspoken Scott Dietzen... BEA creats Worldwide Field Organization, encompassing the sales, services and marketing departments. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2004 Ben McClure |
More R&D, Please Big tech players up the research and development ante. |
InternetNews April 19, 2006 Clint Boulton |
As Goes IBM Software... IBM delivers solid profits for the first quarter. Merrill Lynch gauges the impact of the software division's results. |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Tom Taulli |
BEA's Not-So-Beautiful Quarter BEA is betting on a new trend in technology: SOA. But it's taking time to hit critical mass. And until things pick up, the stock price should languish. |
InternetNews August 8, 2005 Clint Boulton |
BEA Fires up Java Market With 'Diablo' Fresh off of ushering in its AquaLogic plan for more flexible computing, BEA Systems released WebLogic Server 9.0. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2006 Tom Taulli |
To BEA, or Not to BEA? Investors are bidding up the middleware company's stock, but why? Wise investors, beware -- this is a game for the speculators. |
InternetNews January 6, 2005 Clint Boulton |
BEA Extends WebLogic With Telco Buy Looking to improve the service delivery capabilities in WebLogic, BEA Systems has acquired Incomit, a privately held maker of infrastructure software for telecommunications businesses. |
InternetNews January 16, 2008 Larry Barrett |
Oracle Digs Deep to Snare BEA After more than three months of posturing, Oracle finally agrees to pay more than $8.5 billion for the BEA. |
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Clint Boulton |
BEA Bets on New Era of Open Computing BEA Systems' launch of its AquaLogic service-oriented architecture family could mean more for the company than a standard foray into distributed computing. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Playing The R&D Blame Game The Bush Administration's 2006 budget short-changes industrial research and development. Industry executives and shareholders have also contributed to a slowing of spending on basic research. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Have to Admit, Intel Improves The chip maker appears to be turning things around. The company predicts revenue will come in between $9.2 billion and $9.4 billion, up from earlier forecasts of $8.8 billion to $9.4 billion. Can it continue? |
InternetNews January 16, 2008 |
Oracle Prevails in BEA Bid Oracle won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems by raising its bid for the business software maker by 14 percent to $8.5 billion. |
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Clint Boulton |
BEA Makes Fervent SOA Pitch BEA Systems unveils a real-time version of WebLogic and strengthens its ties to the SOA community. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Tom Taulli |
BEA Babbles On Amid continued weakness, the software company attracts even more buyout buzz. While it's impossible to predict these things, one can suspect that shareholders will put ever-greater pressure on BEA to sell. |
InternetNews November 15, 2006 Clint Boulton |
BEA To Shift Into Virtualization Software Looking to capitalize on the burgeoning growth of virtualization software, infrastructure software provider BEA Systems will unveil a virtualized version of its WebLogic application server. |
InternetNews July 19, 2004 Clint Boulton |
BEA Blends App Creation, Process Management Java software maker weds its WebLogic server with homegrown business process software to help customers craft SOAs. |
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Server Sales Fell 14 Percent in Q4 Unix servers show more staying power than low-end x86 servers as the global economic crisis hits the once-thriving server business. |
Food Processing April 2005 Mark Andrus |
Power Lunch: Offset R&D costs with tax credit Recent changes in the tax rules will help to provide companies with additional funding for innovative product development, and may offer a new means for increasing the bottom line. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Ben McClure |
Ruminations on R&D Spending on research and development is important. But can it help identify promising investments? It's pretty easy to spot companies that spend a lot of money on R&D. It's another thing to pick companies that translate R&D spending into higher stock prices. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2005 Rich Smith |
Ciena Slashes, Stock Burns A lesson in how not to stem losses: The telecom equipment maker had some good news for investors yesterday -- and some bad news, too. |
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 Jill Jusko |
R&D Spending: By the Numbers While the software industry spends 13.6% on R&D as a percentage of sales, the chemicals and energy sector spends only 1%. |
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Paul Shread |
Oracle Hits the Mark Oracle reported quarterly results late Monday that were largely in line with Wall Street expectations... The broader market fell Monday ahead of wholesale inflation data... Embarcadero tumbled after a buyout deal fell through... etc. |
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Tim Beyers |
An Oracle Sell-Off? Woo Hoo! Shares of the database company get cheaper. |
InternetNews July 2, 2004 Clint Boulton |
Moving Apps Proves Stable Ground Fueled by IBM, the worldwide market for middleware is strong at least through 2008... BEA and Oracle follow. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Tom Taulli |
Rodman & Renshaw Clones a Bear The biotech boutique has a shaky public offering. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Anders Bylund |
BEA Plays a Fool's Game A multi-billion-dollar bidding war is about to start. Or is it? Buying BEA stock today is a gamble that the company's price tag will grow before an eventual sale. A sensible investor might take the gains here and go look for a safer bet. |
InternetNews June 8, 2006 Michael Hickins |
Open Source Stoking Hot Middleware Market A new study from Gartner shows market leaders' affinities with open source will only help them stay ahead. |
InternetNews May 26, 2004 Michael Singer |
BEA Wants to Turn 'Liquid' Into Gold The company blends service-oriented architectures into its products and services in an attempt to differentiate itself from IBM and others. |