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InternetNews
May 12, 2010
Larry Barrett |
SAP to Purchase Sybase for $5.8 Billion Intensifying the battle with archrival Oracle, SAP ponies up $5.8 billion to acquire Sybase, marking the biggest buy for the enterprise software giant in three years.   |
Insurance & Technology
May 12, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
SAP Will Acquire Sybase for $5.8b Sybase will continue to operate on a standalone basis after the acquisition, which SAP says will create synergistic benefits for both companies. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology
May 17, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
SAP's Acquisition of Sybase Brings Strategic Synergies SAP will help Sybase increase its penetration in the insurance market, while Sybase's mobile capabilities will open up possibilities for new ways to deliver SAP solutions to insurance carriers and their customers. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2011 |
SAP Gets Certified on Oracle Exadata Oracle Exadata Database Machines are now certified for SAP applications. |
InternetNews
August 19, 2010 |
SAP Touts 'Unwired' Strategy With Sybase SAP has broken its radio silence about its plans for mobile technology following the acquisition of Sybase, talking up a new product strategy and road map. |
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. |
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
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
July 27, 2010 |
SAP Misses Q2 Estimates, Says SaaS Offering Soon SAP missed analysts' profit targets in its second quarter, mainly as a result of unfavorable currency exchange rates and one-time payouts to former executives. |
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
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
May 12, 2010
Paul Shread |
Cisco Beats the Street, But Shares Fall Cisco sounds a bullish note, but investors were unimpressed. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2007
Tom Taulli |
SAP Goes Big The major business-software company jolts Wall Street with a transformative deal, agreeing to spend $6.8 billion for Business Objects. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Isn't SAP Was this much of a sell-off warranted? |
InternetNews
November 22, 2005
Clint Boulton |
SAP Gaining Ground in Merchant Applications The German software giant will purchase Khimetrics to keep up with Oracle in the retail applications niche. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2008
Tim Beyers |
SAP's Would-Be Jedi Master SAP shows growth in its Core Enterprise Applications, but the company pays heavily for that growth. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
What's Behind SAP's Change in Outlook? Some hints from SAP on where it sees IT spending heading. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 11, 2009
Alex Goldman |
SAP, Sybase Team on 'Mobilizing' Enterprise Apps Enterprise software provider SAP and software delivery specialist Sybase today announced a partnership to deliver SAP Business Suite Software to the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and other wireless devices. |
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 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. |
CIO
October 1, 2005 |
Vendors You Like A survey finds that two of the factors influencing customer loyalty are trustworthiness and how easy a given company is to do business with. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Oracle Releases the Hounds Oracle's lawsuit against SAP is just another small battle in its war for business applications. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Elementary, My Dear Oracle! Simplicity, not complexity, rules enterprise software. Just ask Larry Ellison. With recent wins at companies like Subaru, Cisco, and Mattel, Oracle appears to be on a roll. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2007
Anders Bylund |
VMware Goes to Germany SAP has decided to support virtual server installations, such as those from VMware. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
SAP Boosts Offer For Retek New $629 million bid counters Oracle's $525 million offer for retail software and services firm. |
InternetNews
January 10, 2011
David Needle |
Oracle Debuts Financial Analytics for SAP Targeting a familiar rival, Oracle releases a new business module called Financial Analytics for SAP. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010 |
Pay a Dividend, Apple! One of the recurring themes in the tech sector is whether companies are hoarding too much cash. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Activist Shareholder Stalks Sybase A hedge fund is pushing the enterprise-software operator for a sale. Investors, take note. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Cisco Caves Cisco, whose management is almost beyond reproach, just showed its stupid side in broad daylight. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle, SAP: Upward Bound Analysts suggest Oracle's winning bid for the Minnesota-based retail software provider is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to potential mergers and acquisitions in the next 12 months. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Oracle, SAP Spar Over Discovery The legal strategy is unfolding between enterprise software rivals Oracle and SAP over Oracle's lawsuit charging that SAP stole massive amounts of its intellectual property. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2010 |
Sybase Taps HP for BI Reference Architecture Sybase, HP Partner on Business Intelligence. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Microsoft and SAP? Get Real Would Microsoft be better paired with German business software giant SAP than with Yahoo!? |
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. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle's Back to Its Bidding Ways The company challenges SAP's latest offer for Retek but this time without its CFO, Henry You. |
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
June 27, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Gloats It's not common business practice to launch verbal volleys at your competitors in an earnings report. But Oracle is now doing exactly that on a regular basis. |
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
September 19, 2005
Clint Boulton |
SAP Takes Triversity For Retail SAP's acquisition of retail software maker Triversity will give the company's retail arm a big boost against Oracle. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
HP's "Softer Side" Strategy: Sensible, but Not Enough It's going to be a long haul for Hewlett-Packard. |
InternetNews
July 3, 2007
David Needle |
SAP In a World of Trouble? SAP admitted that its TomorrowNow subsidiary, engaged in "inappropriate" downloads of Oracle support materials. |
