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The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gears Up for Battle Oracle's Ellison has made SAP enemy No. 1. But SAP is fighting back the right way: by getting customers. Despite the strong performance, SAP's stock price slid $0.92 to $39.38.   |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Bakes a Fine Cherry Pie Some of the deals for which Oracle paid out $5 billion last year are starting to pay big dividends for the company. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Mr. Softy Goes to Madison Avenue Microsoft finally enters the search advertising business. The service kicks off in France and Singapore and will expand globally. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Google Bury Microsoft? Google keeps taking baby steps into Microsoft's turf. Microsoft doesn't appear threatened by Google's newest foray at the moment. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Why Microsoft Might Bid for BI Google is attacking Excel -- by adding analytics, a common feature of what's referred to as business intelligence software, or BI. The assault won't be taken lightly. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
Will SAP's Earnings Renew Investor Optimism? SAP has seen better days and now must find away to break out of its recent stupor to give investors some hope and perhaps regain a bit of its own swagger. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2011 |
SAP Gets Certified on Oracle Exadata Oracle Exadata Database Machines are now certified for SAP applications. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Plus SAP Equals Love Oracle is planning to amend its lawsuit against German rival SAP with some even juicier charges. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Should SAP Go Shopping for Acquisitions? IBM is looking so smart that SAP wants to follow in Big Blue's footsteps. Here's one suggestion. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Sues SAP, Overstates Business Progress Enterprise-software specialist Oracle is suing German rival SAP on the grounds of massive data theft and unfair competition. This is shaping up to be one of the all-time great market rivalries! |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Will Oracle Take SAP to the Cleaners? What's a few orders of magnitude between mortal enemies? |
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
June 8, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Microsoft's Gathering Storm During the trial over Oracle's bid for Peoplesoft, Microsoft indicated that late last year it had discussions to buy out the German ERP giant, SAP. What are Microsoft's plans for the ERP market? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Presto! Google Gobbles Postini Google is hoping that Postini will be the springboard Google Apps needs to catapult over to the grown-ups' table in on-demand applications. What's to stop it from making a bigger play in enterprise software once it gets there? |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Score One for Oracle The battle continues among the software giants, as SAP makes a surprising admission. The main thing for investors to consider is that Oracle has a clear strategy for growth: buying up companies. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Larry, You Picked A Nasty Fight In taking on heavyweight SAP in the corporate applications software market, Oracle faces very long odds. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Quick Take: When Larry Ellison Gets Stupid Oracle is accusing SAP of "corporate theft on a grand scale" after SAP division TomorrowNow allegedly downloaded more than 10,000 documents from Oracle's support site. |
InternetNews
December 22, 2006
David Needle |
SAP Fills Out 2007 Agenda Software giant sees wider adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and huge opportunity in enterprise search. |
PC Magazine
May 9, 2007
Lance Ulanoff |
Is Google a Monopoly? The search-engine company dominates in at least one field, and it's doing it the old-fashioned way -- by earning it. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2009
Tim Beyers |
3 Stock Ideas for the New Microsoft Once known as the world's richest company, Microsoft has resorted to the unthinkable: agreeing to sell $3.75 billion in corporate bonds. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Andy Reinhardt |
SAP: A Sea Change In Software The German legend's move into Lego-like modules could revolutionize the way companies do business. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2006
Tom Taulli |
SAP Still Not Serious About M&A Third-quarter results were much improved, but intense competition from Oracle clouds the picture. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle Plays Both Sides Oracle goes shopping again -- for small fry companies. Despite spending nearly $20 billion in acquisitions over the past few years, it is not impressing shareholders. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2010 |
SAP Delivers Business ByDesign Update After months of delays, SAP finally rolls out its refreshed SaaS suite for enterprise and SMB customers looking for on-demand ERP and CRM apps. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2010 |
SAP Scoops Up TechniData As it looks to fend off Oracle and remain the leading business application vendor, SAP opens its wallet to buy TechniData, a German firm specializing in environmental, health and product-safety applications. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Clint Boulton |
SAP Buys PeopleSoft Support Provider Looking to capitalize on the uncertainty caused by Oracle's $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft, SAP AG acquired TomorrowNow, which provides maintenance and support for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google, Microsoft Face to Face After all the talk, direct competition is finally escalating between Google and Microsoft. It's to a point now that Google even gets mentions in Microsoft company memos. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2006
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gets Zapped SAP has always been conservative on guidance, but the company finally missed its numbers -- in a big way. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
April 1, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google's Gigabyte Giggle? Is Gmail an outlandish hoax or serious business? |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Who Will Win The SAP, Oracle Battle? While SAP and Oracle continue to slug it out for the lion's share of the estimated $30 billion-plus that companies spend for business applications and services each year, Salesforce.com's software-as-a-service model is propelling the company to record sales and earnings. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Use the Salesforce, Google Google agrees to partner with salesforce.com by offering the latter's online customer service software with the Google Apps suite. |
InternetNews
June 7, 2004
Michael Singer |
PeopleSoft's Standing Debated at Trial The DoJ's argument to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft hinges on the Global 2000's view of competition in the ERP marketplace. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Ballmer Slaps Google, Ogles Yahoo, Anoints Vista Microsoft's CEO outlines the company's thinking and provides a peek at what's coming down the line. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2005
David Gardner |
Google This Interview Here is an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Vise, the author of the new book The Google Story, on hardware, hard profits, and hefty valuations. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Dig Into Oracle The business software maven is set to report its third-quarter 2007 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Next Stop: Microhoo! Over the past two months, Google has grown more dominant at the expense of a fading Yahoo!, leading to speculation that Yahoo! and Microsoft should merge before Google gets any bigger. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Google Stumbles Google's policy is to not give guidance. That doesn't change the fact that it did disappoint Wall Street with its fourth-quarter numbers. |
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
December 13, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google's Suggestive New Service Google Suggest may come as no shock, but it's useful and accurate. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Argues Takeover Bid Before EU The business software maker says the real threat to SAP is Microsoft, not its unsolicited $9.4 billion plan to acquire PeopleSoft. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
No Summer Slump For Google Google beat earnings estimates and showed strong audience grown for various services in the third quarter. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo? |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Anders Bylund |
That's a Big One, Oracle As legal battles go, this one should be pretty short. SAP has been ordered to pay up $1.3 billion to Oracle. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2010 |
Larry Ellison Set to Testify in SAP Case SAP has offered to pay Oracle $120 million to pay its legal fees; meanwhile Oracle subpoenas former SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker to testify. |
