middleware, CEO and acquisition news on CNET

April 3, 2006 Even as JBoss weighs acquisition offers, its CEO bemoans some of the "nonsense" regarding Oracle acquisition rumors. TAGS: JBoss, Oracle Corp., acquisition, middleware, buyout, equity, CEO, discussion, Java, open source

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

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, acquisition, PeopleSoft Inc., middleware, CEO, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, blog, database, HP

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, acquisition, middleware, Novell Inc., open-source software, Oracle Corp., Linux, IBM Corp., CEO, Java

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., earnings, SAP AG, enterprise application, net income, middleware, North America, acquisition, database, IBM Corp., CEO

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, Mercury Interactive Corp., SAP AG, middleware, Larry Ellison, IBM DB2, AMR Research, IBM Corp., CRM, database, acquisition, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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