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The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Tom Taulli	BMC Means "Buy My Company" Software developer BMC posted a decent quarter, but the recent move in the stock price is probably the result of an uptick in buyout activity.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2006 Tom Taulli	Open Solutions Is Going Dot-Com This nice growth business that provides software to financial institutions is so nice that two top private equity firms will buy it out. Investors, take note.
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Alex Goldman	IBM Acquires Exeros in Data Discovery Buy IBM acquisition of Exeros aims to help companies find relationships between many databases and as many as a million tables.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	A New Home for Equity Inns Equity Inns will follow many other hotels properties and go private later this year. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Anders Bylund	Will the Sun Set in Oracle's Backyard? Larry Ellison is many things, but never a quitter. He will buy Sun in the end, but the question is why.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2011 Brian Wilson	IBM and Oracle: 2 Competing Bets on IT The IT industry is booming; IBM and Oracle have been fighting over it. Who is better positioned?
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Tom Taulli	Quick Take: Moody's Gets Moody About Private Equity What about the debt? And who benefits from a quick flip? Let's face it, the role of a private equity firm is to generate competitive returns for its investors. It's not about improving Corporate America.
Entrepreneur September 2003 C.J. Prince	Got Leverage? If you're ready to sell, you've got the upper hand. Large buyout firms will be looking to entrepreneurs.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Does This Really Spell Doom for the Market? Private equity giant Blackstone is selling investments; does that mean you should run for the hills?
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Dan Caplinger	The Lure of Private Equity -- Part 2 As one can infer from the increasing trend toward private equity investments, the use of private equity provides advantages over other methods of raising corporate capital.
InternetNews February 14, 2011	Oracle Tunes Up Database Security With Firewall In a bid to shore up the security of crucial IT assets, Oracle has unveiled its Database Firewall product, which seeks to guard against SQL injections and other database attacks.
The Motley Fool April 10, 2007 Tim Beyers	Who's Filing Now? Take a look at what lurks in Friday's late filings. Sofnic Solutions... BEA Systems... Kroger... etc.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2008 Anders Bylund	Oracle Scales Up, Up, Up Oracle turns in another great quarter, just like they've been doing for years on end.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	Steve Schwarzman Starts Warming Up The author talks to Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman about the state of the private equity market, changes on Wall Street, and the outlook for various types of investments.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2009 Anders Bylund	Oracle's Pyrrhic Victory? Oracle is navigating its way through European regulations. But what's the point?
InternetNews May 24, 2011	Amazon Puts Oracle's Database in the Cloud Amazon.com has unveiled a new cloud service based on Oracle database technology.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2006 Tom Taulli	Home Depot: The $100 Billion Dream Deal? No company seems immune to a buyout -- including Home Depot. Yet for wise investors, such considerations are little more than noise.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2008 Tim Beyers	Larry Ellison: Tilting at Windmills Again? Oracle will team with Hewlett-Packard to introduce a new database "appliance," a slab of hardware filled with storage, memory, and processing power whose sole purpose would be to manage and process database transactions.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2007 Tom Taulli	China's Private Equity Dynasty? In the past, Chinese government regulation has prevented foreign private equity firms from buying companies, however, China now apparently recognizes the need for a domestic private equity industry.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 Tom Taulli	BMC + BSM = Upside The software company continues to crank out lots of cash and is making a big bet on business service management software. Investors, take note.
Information Today February 27, 2014	KeepTool Repackages Database Programs KeepTool, which develops professional software tools for Oracle databases, released version 11 of its product suite.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Rich Smith	Sybase's So-So, Solid Q1 Earnings don't improve all that much, but the free cash is flowing. And RFID tags might bring in even more. Investors, keep an eye on this one as the company positions itself to become the database maker of choice.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2006 Tom Taulli	Onyx Opts Out After several ho-hum years, the enterprise software firm goes private. Similar deals have recently flourished in the enterprise software industry and will probably be the main way these companies provide returns to their shareholders.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2006 Tom Taulli	Are Tech Buyouts the Next Big Thing? Private equity funds have a treasure chest of cash. Does this bode well for the tech industry? While there are strong players in big tech, a buyout should be a possible bonus, not a driving factor, when deciding whether to buy the stock.
InternetNews September 16, 2010	Oracle Q1 Earnings Rise on Software Licenses Database heavyweight Oracle turned in a solid earnings report for the first quarter, posting earnings 38 percent ahead of the year-earlier period and handily topping analysts' expectations.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2005 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Oracle Speaks Oracle seems to be part of a recent trend in the stock market -- a trend that sees superb large-cap tech companies falling to reasonable, or even discounted, prices.
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Jack Ewing	Wanted: European Buyout Targets Private equity deals are picking up on the Continent -- but is a surge really ahead?
The Motley Fool September 26, 2007 Tom Taulli	Did Stub Equity Sink Harman's Deal? For once, this financial trend may actually stay dead. On its face, the Harman stub equity deal sounded like a good idea.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2007 Tom Taulli	Beams of Cash Flow From BMC The enterprise software company's strong momentum continues in the third quarter, due in part to a recently signed major contract with Merrill Lynch.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Dan Caplinger	The Lure of Private Equity The fact that private equity deals have become commonplace shows that private equity provides benefits to investors as well as to companies and their corporate managers.
InternetNews September 1, 2006 Clint Boulton	Equity Group Offers $1.3B for Intergraph Intergraph Corporation, a leading maker of mapping and visualization software, agreed to be acquired for $1.3 billion by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman LLC and Texas Pacific Group.
BusinessWeek September 9, 2010 Katie Hoffman	IBM's Big Push to Steal Sales from Its Rivals Big Blue tries auto industry tactics to boost server sales.
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InternetNews March 16, 2009 Paul Shread	Cisco, Oracle End Tech Stock Rally Worries about Cisco's entry into the server market and Oracle's earnings brought the stock market rally to an end on Monday.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Anders Bylund	Oracle Won and Lost in Europe Some hard-fought victories aren't worth the paper their oral contracts were written on.
InternetNews November 11, 2010	IBM Boasts Customer Wins Amid Oracle-HP Feud IBM boasts that it signed up a record number of customers from competitors in the first three quarters of the year, luring hundreds away from Oracle and HP.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Tom Taulli	Beaming BMC The enterprise software company had a solid quarter, but the competition is perking up.
The Motley Fool September 5, 2006 Tom Taulli	Intergraph's Deal: Too Good for Management With global terrorist threats heightening the need for infrastructure security, and increasingly complex requirements in the oil industry, Intergraph's long-term market growth potential looks bright. Management's buyout offer seems a bit low. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2010 Eric Bleeker	IBM Delivers, Then Drops Like A Rock Big Blue's earnings growth can't hide revenue woes
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 Tom Taulli	Investors Hear Sybase Now Key investments are starting to pay off for the enterprise software operator. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek October 8, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Private Equity's Public Moves With big buyouts in the doldrums, firms are picking up small pieces of companies.
BusinessWeek July 2, 2007 Maria Bartiromo	Bashing Private Equity Congress is contemplating tax changes that would have a significant impact on private equity profits, and criticism of the buyout juggernaut is gaining ground in both the U.S. and Europe.
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BusinessWeek February 26, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Hedge Funds Jump Into Private Equity Eager to boost performance, hedge funds are entering the market at a risky moment.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Bringing a Little More of America to Japan Japan could be a ripe market for American private equity funds. The Japanese economy is perking up, but local investors don't seem quite as keen on their equities as foreign investors do.
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The Motley Fool May 23, 2007 Tom Taulli	Dueling Fools: Private Equity Bear Rebuttal Huge amounts of private equity could mean big problems for investors.
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