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September 16, 2005 Oracle Retail brand name, set for launch at user confab next week, will cover products picked up in acquisitions and existing software. TAGS: Oracle Corp., ProfitLogic, PeopleSoft Inc., Retek Inc., business software, acquisition, Siebel Systems Inc., Larry Ellison, business application, SAP AG, software company, Bill Gates, brand, Microsoft Corp.

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, acquisition, database, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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.

September 16, 2005 The week kicked off with news of two major mergers, while developers gathered in Los Angeles to hear the latest at Microsoft's annual confab. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., merger, Oracle Corp., eBay Inc., Week in review, Skype, Thomson Corp., SAP AG, acquisition, PayPal, Los Angeles, Redmond, reader, Microsoft Corp.

September 16, 2005 On "Merger Monday," Oracle announced it will acquire rival Siebel Systems, and then, within hours, eBay revealed plans to buy Net telephony provider Skype. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., merger, Skype, eBay Inc., Thomson Corp., SAP AG, acquisition, PayPal, reader, Microsoft Corp.

September 23, 2005 Software giant announces major reorg and Jim Allchin's future retirement. Also: Reshuffling news from Sony and Oracle. TAGS: Jim Allchin, restructuring plan, reorganization, Oracle Corp., division, Week in review, Siebel Systems Inc., acquisition, Sony Corp., software company, Microsoft Corp., president, Google Inc., TV, Microsoft Windows

August 10, 2006 The $35-per-share deal marks IBM's third software-related purchase announcement since last week. TAGS: FileNet Corp., content management, IBM Corp., acquisition, AMR Research, Oracle Corp., software company, Microsoft Corp.

December 19, 2006 As open source becomes pervasive, software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun are adapting in different ways. TAGS: JBoss, open source, Novell Inc., AJAX, GPL, IBM DB2, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., middleware, MySQL, IBM Corp., Linux, acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc., database, Microsoft Corp.

April 14, 2005 "With on-demand," CEO says, "the customer hands his destiny to someone else and then he finds...he cannot get his destiny back." TAGS: SAP AG, on-demand, CRM, Henning Kagermann, hosted CRM, Siebel Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., hosting company, Oracle Corp., acquisition, CEO, agreement, Microsoft Corp., HP

November 17, 2005 Doug Burgum takes up another role as the company looks for a new leader for its unit selling software to midsized customers. TAGS: Great Plains Software, Steve Ballmer, leader, software company, Oracle Corp., acquisition, Microsoft Corp., CEO, e-mail

October 25, 2000 Hewlett-Packard buys Bluestone Software for an estimated $470 million, as the computing giant continues to make inroads into the exploding e-business software market. TAGS: Bluestone Software, E-speak, e-business, e-commerce, computing giant, iPlanet, Commerce One, Sun Microsystems Inc., acquisition, vision, application server, software product, HP, Netscape Communications Corp., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp.

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