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Oracle buys BEA after all (what the heck is going on today?)

Paying a higher price gets Oracle their prize pig of the day.

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Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource
Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, co-founder of MuleSoft, and managing director for Hardy Way. He is an adviser to DataStax, IT Database, and Puppet Labs.
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that Oracle finally got its hands on BEA after raising their price.
Oracle agreed to lift its offer to $19.375 a share in cash, compared to the company's original bid last October of $17 a share. BEA had been holding out for $21 a share. The new proposal reflects a premium of 24% over BEA's closing price on Tuesday of $15.58. The deal also values BEA at $7.2 billion, up from Oracle's initial bid of $6.7 billion
What the hell is going on out there? (Oh, and while cash prizes are being handed out, did I mention that MuleSource has a fabulous Mule ESB and SOA Governance Platform that big vendors should be dying for? ;)