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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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., proposal, negotiation

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., middleware company, Oracle Corp., suitor, middleware, shareholder, deadline, offer, letter

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Business Objects, SAP AG, announcement, negotiation, shareholder, acquisition

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., middleware, shareholder, offer, CEO

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Carl Icahn, PeopleSoft Inc., Siebel Systems Inc., acquisition, SAP AG, offer, shareholder, letter, California, IBM Corp.

HP extends Oracle pact to cover middleware

February 13, 2006 Hewlett-Packard will provide consulting services for Oracle's suite of Java server software. TAGS: middleware, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Java server, consulting service, enterprise application, consulting, HP, Java

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., financials, Oracle Corp., Carl Icahn, shareholder, document

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., shareholder, Oracle Corp., Delaware Chancery Court, deadline, investor, Carl Icahn, middleware, lawsuit, offer, proposal, sale, letter

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 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. TAGS: multi-core processor, Oracle Corp., multi-core, policy, BEA Systems Inc., pricing, middleware, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., application server, software company, database, dual-core processor, dual-core, Sun Microsystems Inc., server

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. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., financials, shareholder, Delaware Chancery Court, proxy, candidate, court, attorney, expert, Oracle Corp.

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. TAGS: Oracle Corp., multi-core, Intel Itanium, software license, dual-core processor, hardware maker, BEA Systems Inc., two-processor, Intel, Intel Pentium, dual-core, software company, CPU, HP, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: Larry Ellison, PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., content management, collaboration, acquisition, SAP AG, CEO, database, server

Oracle goes for girth

October 24, 2005 Oracle takes a dual approach to fight the competition: Fusion Middleware and industry-specific, niche applications. TAGS: middleware, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., software company, Java, IBM Corp.

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. TAGS: Larry Ellison, Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., acquisition, PeopleSoft Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Open World, margin, on-demand, BEA Systems Inc., business intelligence, CRM, San Francisco, CEO, database

'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. TAGS: IBM DB2, James Gosling, Oracle Corp., programming tool, IBM Corp., software developer, free version, open source, database server, database, BEA Systems Inc., vendor, software company, Microsoft Corp., server

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. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Oracle Application Server, Stephen O'Grady, application server, stack, open source, Apache Software Foundation, BEA Systems Inc., open-source software, Java, server

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. TAGS: Borland Software Corp., BEA Systems Inc., middleware, development tool, CEO, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.

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? TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., server software, Ingres, open source, database, Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, open-source software, database software, BEA Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., CEO, server
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