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BEA plans to let Oracle buyout offer expire
October 26, 2007
BEA Systems reiterates its stance that $17 a share is too low and is prepared to let the buyout offer expire Sunday.
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Oracle sets deadline for BEA offer
October 23, 2007
Takeover bid of $17 per share is now set to expire Sunday, unless the middleware company agrees to give shareholders a vote.
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BEA sets buyout price at $21 a share
October 25, 2007
Oracle's offer of $17 per share? No thanks, BEA says again. This time, it's countering with what it sees as a better shareholder value.
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Oracle: Even $6.7 billion for BEA is too high
November 15, 2007
CEO Larry Ellison tells analysts that if his company renews bid for middleware maker, it would come at a price below $17 a share.
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Buyout could serve both BEA, Oracle
October 12, 2007
The proposed acquisition could resolve questions about BEA's future growth. Then there's the Carl Icahn factor.
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HP extends Oracle pact to cover middleware
February 13, 2006
Hewlett-Packard will provide consulting services for Oracle's suite of Java server software.
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BEA gives Icahn access to confidential financials
November 5, 2007
BEA Systems hopes Carl Icahn, its largest shareholder, will gain a better sense of the company's value after reviewing the documents.
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Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems
October 29, 2007
The $6.7 billion buyout bid is kaput, Oracle says, as BEA holds its ground on a per-share price and investor Carl Icahn agitates for board action.
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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.
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Oracle shifts multicore licensing model
July 14, 2005
Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals.
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BEA's financial restatements key to warding off Icahn
November 2, 2007
Company needs to get financials in order if it hopes to keep its biggest shareholder from taking control of a possible buyout, legal experts say.
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HP, Intel tussle with Oracle over dual-core chips
February 11, 2005
As more cores end up on each chip, software licenses will increase in cost--but out of all proportion to the cost of the hardware.
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Oracle's eye on the future
January 26, 2005
At an analysts' event, the company discusses PeopleSoft, its planned entry into the market for collaboration software and more.
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Oracle goes for girth
October 24, 2005
Oracle takes a dual approach to fight the competition: Fusion Middleware and industry-specific, niche applications.
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Ellison looks to double Oracle revenue
September 22, 2005
CEO wants to grow company from a nearly $15 billion concern to a $30 billion titan--while maintaining a 40 percent operating margin.
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Oracle updates application server, Java tool
February 10, 2006
Application Server 10g and Java development tool add support for server standards, AJAX Web development.
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'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools
January 31, 2006
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
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Open-source firm SourceLabs partners with Oracle
February 9, 2006
Services outfit SourceLabs stress tests the "SASH" open-source components on Oracle's application server.
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Borland names new CEO
November 8, 2005
Tod Nielsen, who has worked at Oracle, BEA and Microsoft, takes the helm at the struggling software company.
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Sun floats open-source database idea
February 4, 2005
Such a move could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates. Image: A Sun database?
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