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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 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. |
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
October 15, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Why Oracle's Tops in Takeovers Industry watchers think BEA's days are numbered: Larry Ellison and Oracle have spent years and billions mastering the art of the takeover. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 26, 2007
Christopher Saunders |
BEA Bites Back in Oracle Bid BEA Systems shrugs off Oracle's lambasting over its counterproposal. |
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 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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
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
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
InternetNews
December 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Delivers Some Holiday Cheer Oracle easily topped analyst estimates in its third quarter thanks to a 38 percent surge in new software sales. |
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. |
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
September 22, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Oracle's Big Show Will Be BEA's Coming Out Party None other than Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps will join Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at the Oracle OpenWorld conference this week. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Currency Fluctuations, Weak App Sales Hit Oracle The troubled economy impacts the database giant's bottom line. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Enterprise Software in 2008: Consolidation and Chaos Loom VCs will lavish more attention on data-management startups as leading vendors snap up niche players. And an acquisition of SAP? It's not as crazy as it sounds. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
BEA Demands More From Oracle BEA Systems now appears willing to negotiate a sale to Oracle - as long as the price is set at $21 per share. |
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. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Oracle Buys Sun in IBM's Wake Oracle reveals a few details of its strategic vision for the merger with Sun. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Oracle-Siebel a Done Deal Oracle today said shareholders have accepted its $5.85 billion cash bid for Siebel Systems, making the company the top dog in the market for customer relationship management software. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Joshua Greenbaum |
Is Ghengis On the Hunt Again? Now that Oracle owns PeopleSoft, and all signs point to a reinvigorated push by Oracle into the enterprise applications space, it's worth wondering who CEO Larry Ellison has in his crosshairs. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Shatters 1Q Estimates Another blockbuster earnings report from Oracle ratchets up the pressure on arch-rival SAP. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Delivers, Denounces a Rival Oracle's Ellison and his senior executive staff decided to rip into competitor SAP. Ellison then spent a good portion of the conference call outlining the many ways in which Oracle is outperforming its rival in enterprise-management software. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2007
Hamm & Grover |
Tech Gets the Icahn Treatment Carl Icahn is shaking up the landscape in Silicon Valley as companies' revenue growth slows. |
InternetNews
September 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Oracle Sees Tougher Days Ahead The spate of acquisitions that Oracle has made over the years seems to be paying off. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2004
Michael Singer |
Conway Gets His Chance To Defend PeopleSoft Former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway took the stand to defend himself against Oracle's lawyers who questioned him about his part in PeopleSoft's Customer Assurance Program. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle: All Business, No Show There is little doubt that Oracle will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. The real question is, how quickly? Ellison and his gang need to come up with some organic growth outside of the mainstay database business. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2010 |
Oracle's Ellison Calls Out HP Larry Ellison makes it clear that Oracle has former close ally HP in its sites. |
InternetNews
July 10, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Oracle Database to Get a Dust Up in 11g Oracle is heading to New York to formally introduce 11g, the company's first major database refresh since the launch of 10g nearly four years ago. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2008
Paul Shread |
Slowdown Catches Up With Oracle Oracle shares tumbled in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company's sales came in below Wall Street estimates... Stocks fell during the day... Rambus was a standout... etc. |
InternetNews
December 8, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Oracle Makes Final Bid For Banking Company Database giant Oracle has given holdout i-flex shareholders until Dec. 23 to accept a new $1.3 billion offer for the India-based financial software company. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Oracle Prophecies Shortly, investors will get another earnings report from database and business software giant Oracle, followed by what promises to be an entertaining conference call. |
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
December 13, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Oracle to Buy PeopleSoft for $10.3B After a long pursuit, Oracle will pay $26.50 per share for PeopleSoft, a 10 percent premium over the company's closing price Friday. |
CRM
January 1, 2008
Joshua Weinberger |
On the Scene: Oracle OpenWorld 2007 Oracle wows its users with new products and new plans for the future. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle's New Enemy: Red Hat Oracle wanted JBoss, but Red Hat beat Larry Ellison to it. But Oracle could crimp another enemy by buying Novell. No doubt, buying a company on buyout speculation is not a good idea. However, in the case of Novell, there is now a group of big prospective buyers. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle Expects to Finalize Merger this Week The company believes it will have the handful of remaining PeopleSoft shares needed for an accelerated takeover. |
InternetNews
December 29, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Oracle Takes Majority Control of PeopleSoft Oracle has taken majority ownership of PeopleSoft after that company's stockholders tendered roughly 75 percent of their shares in favor of the $10.3 billion acquisition. |
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
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
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
October 8, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Oracle Snaps up Primavera Oracle today announced it will buy Primavera, a long established leader in project management software, for an undisclosed sum. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source Vendors Optimistic on Oracle-Sun What will Oracle's Sun buy mean for Java and open source? |
InternetNews
June 15, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Grid Strategy Is Good For Oracle Profits zoom during its full year and final quarter of fiscal year. Oracle Investors Get Picky |
InternetNews
April 13, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Oracle Adding SOA to Developer Tools New development environment uses service-oriented architectures to make Java and Web services application creation easier. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2010 |
Now Oracle Really Is Your Father's IBM Oracle details its post-Sun plan for delivering integrated and engineered systems to the enterprise. Want a hint? Think IBM in the 1960s. |
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. |
