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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., data integration, PeopleSoft Inc., logistics, middleware, acquisition, software company

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

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

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, Oracle Corp., acquisition, buyout, middleware, equity, CEO, discussion, Java, open source

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, middleware, architecture, perception, PeopleSoft Inc., acquisition, discussion, database

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

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, Oracle Corp., open source

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, CRM, IBM Corp., database, acquisition, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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., GPL, AJAX, IBM DB2, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp., middleware, MySQL, IBM Corp., Linux, acquisition, Sun Microsystems Inc., database, 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

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