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July 2, 2004 An economist says the merger would aid competition. Papers show IBM looking nervous. TAGS: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., ISV, IBM Corp., antitrust, SAP AG, bid, argument, merger, acquisition, R&D, professor, trial, software company, document, database

March 8, 2005 Two months after swallowing PeopleSoft, Oracle plans $9 per share competing bid for software maker Retek. TAGS: Retek Inc., SAP AG, Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., Larry Ellison, buyout, business management, bid, software company, acquisition, Java, database

March 14, 2006 For Oracle, the past few months have been one big shopping spree. But at what point does its spate of mergers start delivering diminishing returns? TAGS: Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp., SCM, PeopleSoft Inc., acquisition, Siebel Systems Inc., supply chain, Silicon Valley, professor, conference, software company, California, database

September 13, 2005 Siebel's 12 years of independence comes to an end in the form of a $5.8 billion buyout. TAGS: Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Ellison, buyout, Marc Benioff, Newsmaker, CRM, acquisition, database company, merger, CEO, software company, database

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, middleware, acquisition, PeopleSoft Inc., CEO, HP, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., blog, open source, database

February 3, 2006 Database giant is learning defensive moves from the more than one dozen companies it picked up in acquisition spree in the past year. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Oblix Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Redwood Shores, margin, security, company representative, acquisition, software company, database

February 7, 2006 Hewlett-Packard acquires the archiving software maker in an effort to bolster its storage offerings. TAGS: OuterBay Technologies, HP StorageWorks, HP, information lifecycle management, storage software, EMC Corp., archiving, division, general manager, Oracle Corp., acquisition, database, software company, server

September 12, 2005 Many say the software giant's only means of growth is to buy up rivals, while others say deal will be fraught with challenges. TAGS: RightNow Technologies, Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, CRM, blogger, acquisition, on-demand, mean, SAP AG, app, blog, software company, database

April 2, 2004 The database company says the $95 million buyout will bring it expertise in management of remote devices and a highly prized technology for mobile data security. TAGS: XcelleNet, Sybase Inc., iAnywhere Solutions Inc., buyout, middleware, corporate network, mobile device, expertise, database company, database software, acquisition, database, California, security, software company

August 2, 2005 Database giant moves in on I-flex Solutions, which provides tools and services to 575 banks in 115 countries. TAGS: Oracle Corp., banking, bank, database company, ERP, India, acquisition, software company, pricing, information technology, database

May 10, 2005 Big Blue fills out the low end of its WebSphere line and throws its weight behind Apache's Geronimo project. TAGS: Gluecode Software, IBM WebSphere, Apache Software Foundation, JBoss, Apache Geronimo, application server, IBM Corp., open source, Java, J2EE, Java 2, acquisition, portal, server, software company, database

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