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Oracle sweeps up Siebel

September 13, 2005 Siebel's 12 years of independence comes to an end in the form of a $5.8 billion buyout. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Salesforce.com Inc., buyout, acquisition, Marc Benioff, database company, Newsmaker, CRM, CEO, software company, merger, database

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, on-demand, margin, business intelligence, BEA Systems Inc., CRM, San Francisco, database, CEO

Oracle to swallow Siebel for $5.8 billion

September 12, 2005 The database giant makes its fourth acquisition this year, buying up CRM specialist Siebel. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., CRM, PeopleSoft Inc., centerpiece, acquisition, General Electric Co., shareholder, integration, software company, CEO, pricing

Ellison: No other big buys in mind

September 21, 2005 Oracle CEO tells customers that engineering, not large deals, is top priority in an increasingly competitive applications market. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., middleware, SAP AG, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP NetWeaver, on-demand, acquisition, CEO

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: Larry Ellison, PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., content management, acquisition, collaboration, SAP AG, CEO, database, server

Sending the penguins out with a hot foot

October 27, 2006 perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Borland Software Corp., Oracle Open World, announcement, Siebel Systems Inc., profit margin, PeopleSoft Inc., open-source company, open source, acquisition, CEO, database, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Too much on Oracle's plate?

September 22, 2005 special coverage Customers wonder whether Oracle has bitten off more buyouts than it can deal with. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Larry Ellison, buyout, middleware, acquisition, PeopleSoft Inc., CEO, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, blog, HP, database

Oracle posts higher profit on license sales

June 29, 2005 Business software giant posts better-than-expected earnings bolstered in part by applications license revenue. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG, earnings, enterprise application, net income, middleware, North America, database, acquisition, IBM Corp., CEO

Technology's growing acquisition appetite

September 14, 2005 Billion-dollar mergers are becoming increasingly common as the tech industry tries to maintain growth and offset price pressures. TAGS: Thomson Corp., Oracle Corp., acquisition, Larry Ellison, dot-com, merger, Skype, Cisco Systems Inc., eBay Inc., CEO

Siebel, Oracle workers express merger jitters

September 12, 2005 Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems wasn't a big surprise for employees of either company, yet some appeared a bit rattled arriving for work Monday morning. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., merger, corporate culture, PeopleSoft Inc., takeover, Larry Ellison, CRM, layoff, engineer, acquisition, Silicon Valley, worker, CEO, California

Keeping up with the (Dow) Joneses

May 7, 2007 Rumblings of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may not have panned out, but in the merger world, the pursuers and pursued are still out in force. TAGS: Internet portal, takeover, Dow Chemical Co., acquisition, merger, Larry Ellison, CEO, theory, Yahoo! Inc., media, America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Praise, skepticism greet Oracle-Siebel merger

September 12, 2005 Reaction to Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems is mixed, but it won't be as complex as Oracle's purchase of PeopleSoft. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., merger, SAP AG, Mercury Interactive Corp., middleware, IBM DB2, Larry Ellison, AMR Research, IBM Corp., CRM, database, acquisition, CEO, Microsoft Corp.
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