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Oracle buys Sunopsis

October 10, 2006 Acquisition of data integration company will be used to enhance the company's Fusion Middleware product line. TAGS: Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., data integration, logistics, middleware, acquisition, software company

JBoss CEO: Buyout talk got 'out of hand'

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

Oracle's new plan: Make friends, don't buy them

October 23, 2006 Best known for regularly buying other software makers, Oracle is now making nice with partners to help it expand. TAGS: Oracle Corp., middleware, acquisition, Siebel Systems Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., open source

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, middleware, Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, SAP NetWeaver, on-demand, acquisition, CEO

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.

Oracle's Phillips touts Fusion's heat

October 23, 2006 The company is baking its Fusion strategy into its enterprise software applications "at the factory." TAGS: Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., middleware, Siebel Systems Inc., enterprise software, acquisition, conference, president, database

Who says Oracle's finished?

July 25, 2005 Charles Phillips, an Oracle co-president, hints at the database giant's upcoming moves. TAGS: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, architecture, middleware, perception, PeopleSoft Inc., acquisition, discussion, database

Sybase aims to extend mobile capabilities

July 29, 2005 Company plans to add to its "unwired enterprise" initiative with the purchase of middleware provider Extended Systems. TAGS: Extended Systems, Sybase Inc., buyout, middleware, mobile computing, acquisition, Europe, Palm Inc., database

Sun to buy integration outfit SeeBeyond

June 28, 2005 Technology giant will dole out $387 million in cash to get Java-based integration software for server suite. TAGS: SeeBeyond Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java Enterprise System, Java server, Enterprise Service Bus, Sun Java, Scott McNealy, Jonathan Schwartz, Java, middleware, acquisition, server

Iona buys open-source specialist LogicBlaze

April 10, 2007 Integration middleware vendor Iona acquires company involved in Apache open-source projects. TAGS: Iona Technologies, open source, Apache Software Foundation, middleware, acquisition, software company, server

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: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, buyout, PeopleSoft Inc., middleware, acquisition, CEO, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, blog, HP, database

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.

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, IBM Corp., CEO

JBoss airs expansion plans

July 16, 2004 Company wants to offer open-source versions of integration middleware and business process management software, CNET News.com has learned. TAGS: JBoss, application server, Enterprise Service Bus, business process, open source, Java server, BPM, middleware, open-source project, Stephen O'Grady, J2EE, Java, integration, venture capital, server, acquisition

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

Year in review: Grappling with open source

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., acquisition, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., database, Microsoft Corp.

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