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BEA acquires M7

September 28, 2005 Middleware company BEA Systems buys applications tools developer M7 in an effort to expand its open-source tools chest. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., acquisition, middleware, open source, Oracle Corp.

BEA snaps up small data-access company

November 3, 2005 With its acquisition of privately held SolarMetric, BEA Systems gains Kodo, an object-relationship mapping tool. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., data access, BEA WebLogic, acquisition, development tool, Java, database, server

BEA sets buyout price at $21 a share

October 25, 2007 Oracle's offer of $17 per share? No thanks, BEA says again. This time, it's countering with what it sees as a better shareholder value. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Business Objects, SAP AG, announcement, negotiation, shareholder, acquisition

Buyout could serve both BEA, Oracle

October 12, 2007 The proposed acquisition could resolve questions about BEA's future growth. Then there's the Carl Icahn factor. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Carl Icahn, Siebel Systems Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG, acquisition, offer, shareholder, letter, California, IBM Corp.

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

March 1, 2006 Company's latest buy to expand BEA's presence in service-oriented architecture software. TAGS: BEA AquaLogic, Plumtree Software, BEA Systems Inc., BPM, business process, SOA, TIBCO Software Inc., acquisition, CEO, IBM Corp.

BEA buys Incomit to beef up telecom software

January 5, 2005 Move is part of company's plan to create industry-specific versions of its WebLogic software. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., BEA WebLogic, telecommunications, acquisition, software company, IBM Corp., security

Ellison looks to double Oracle revenue

September 22, 2005 CEO wants to grow company from a nearly $15 billion concern to a $30 billion titan--while maintaining a 40 percent operating margin. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., acquisition, Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Open World, margin, on-demand, business intelligence, BEA Systems Inc., CRM, San Francisco, database, CEO

Year in review: Software vendors sate their big appetites

December 16, 2005 Makers of enterprise applications had merger mania this year, adding heft to already large players. TAGS: margin, enterprise application, acquisition, software company, SAP AG, BEA Systems Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., merger, background

WebMethods to buy governance guru Infravio

September 11, 2006 Integration software company WebMethods builds out its SOA product line with Infravio's registry. TAGS: Infravio, WebMethods Inc., David Mitchell, SOA, Web service, BEA Systems Inc., acquisition

Oracle's eye on the future

January 26, 2005 At an analysts' event, the company discusses PeopleSoft, its planned entry into the market for collaboration software and more. TAGS: PeopleSoft Inc., Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., content management, collaboration, acquisition, SAP AG, CEO, database, server

Red Hat scoops up JBoss

April 10, 2006 Ending speculation, Linux distributor shells out $350 million for open-source Java company. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., open source, BEA Systems Inc., application server, acquisition, Java, Linux, server

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

April 10, 2006 Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights. TAGS: JBoss, Red Hat Inc., ecosystem, BEA Systems Inc., open source, open-source company, middleware, acquisition, Novell Inc., open-source software, Oracle Corp., Linux, Java, CEO, IBM Corp.

Progress nabs Actional for Web services tools

January 19, 2006 The $32 million deal is another sign of faster consolidation in the market for service-oriented architecture software. TAGS: Actional Corp., Progress Software Corp., Sonic Software, Web services management, SOA, Web service, BEA Systems Inc., acquisition

Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP

June 15, 2005 After years of beefing up its software for corporate use, the software behemoth is threatened by a cut-rate, open-source challenger. TAGS: TechEd, TCO, Apache Software Foundation, Apache Web server, Web server, open source, BEA Systems Inc., Steve Ballmer, acquisition, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows Server, combination, Linux, server, database, Microsoft Corp.

Sun's gloomy side

October 18, 2005 The computer maker has usually fallen short of its potential in software and storage. Can new plans turn things around? TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Eric Schmidt, Scott McNealy, Sun Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, open source, BEA Systems Inc., Java, Google Inc., computer company, project, acquisition, server, operating system
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