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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., IBM DB2, Larry Ellison, middleware, AMR Research, IBM Corp., CRM, database, acquisition, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Week in review: Merger and Microsoft mania

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., Thomson Corp., Week in review, Skype, SAP AG, acquisition, Redmond, Los Angeles, PayPal, reader, Microsoft Corp.

This week in merger mania

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., acquisition, SAP AG, PayPal, reader, Microsoft Corp.

New Oracle brand to wrap up retail buys

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., business software, Retek Inc., acquisition, Larry Ellison, Siebel Systems Inc., business application, SAP AG, software company, Bill Gates, brand, Microsoft Corp.

SAP says it won't join the on-demand crowd

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., hosting company, Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., CEO, acquisition, agreement, HP, Microsoft Corp.

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, profit margin, open-source company, PeopleSoft Inc., Siebel Systems Inc., open source, acquisition, CEO, database, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Week in review: Microsoft mixes it up

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., Sony Corp., acquisition, software company, Microsoft Corp., president, Google Inc., TV, Microsoft Windows
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