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January 25, 2005
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IBM Acquires Corio in On Demand Play Cash deal adds more consultants to IBM's ranks and weight to its hosted application business lines.   |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Salesforce.com Goes for the Close As expected, the company's IPO was red-hot. But it could be too hot for long-term investors. |
InternetNews
September 12, 2005 |
Oracle to Buy Siebel For $5.85 Billion Oracle is again shaking up the enterprise software world with a $5.85 billion cash and stock deal to buy customer relationship management software maker Siebel Systems. |
InternetNews
May 1, 2009
Rob Enderle |
How Oracle-Sun Could Use Google to Become New IBM There are several paths that Oracle could take to fully utilize the assets they are acquiring from Sun to become more dominant. |
InternetNews
September 13, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Oracle + Siebel = CRM Consolidation Oracle's $5.85 billion acquisition bid of Siebel Systems stirs another debate over best-of-breed vs. integrated suite in software deployment. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2010
Eric Bleeker |
IBM Delivers, Then Drops Like A Rock Big Blue's earnings growth can't hide revenue woes |
InternetNews
May 5, 2011
Stuart J. Johnston |
Enterprise Software Sales Hit $245 billion in 2010 Enterprise software sales were up by 8.5 percent in 2010, who were the big winners? |
InternetNews
January 20, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Siebel Takes Telephones Out of the Call Center With the announced purchase of Ineto Services, the CRM On Demand provider gives small businesses the choice between a hosted or in-house service. |
InternetNews
April 29, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Report: Oracle in Talks to Buy Siebel The enterprise software maker is reportedly in talks to buy the CRM specialist in a deal that could be worth $5B. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2010 |
IBM Boasts Customer Wins Amid Oracle-HP Feud IBM boasts that it signed up a record number of customers from competitors in the first three quarters of the year, luring hundreds away from Oracle and HP. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2011
Brian Wilson |
IBM and Oracle: 2 Competing Bets on IT The IT industry is booming; IBM and Oracle have been fighting over it. Who is better positioned? |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Oracle's Bizarre Software Triangle Revelations in the Oracle-PeopleSoft trial continue to entertain. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2009
Alex Goldman |
IBM Acquires Exeros in Data Discovery Buy IBM acquisition of Exeros aims to help companies find relationships between many databases and as many as a million tables. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
Hidden in Plain Sight, Wall Street Discovers a Tech Gem Misunderstood and underappreciated for years, IBM is starting to get credit for transforming itself over the last couple of decades into a well-oiled, cash-generation machine. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Has Larry Ellison Gone Crazy? With the PeopleSoft proposal unresolved, the Oracle chief preaches more acquisitions. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2011
Rich Smith |
IBM's 8 Billion Buck Buyback In addition to boosting its dividend payout 15%, it will spend $8 billion repurchasing its own shares. But are buybacks the best use of IBM's cash? |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2011
Evan Niu |
Big Blue Does It Again IBM picks up cloud-based commerce software specialist DemandTec. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Siebel's Not Worth the Risk Siebel's preliminary earnings forecast is encouraging, but the stock is not cheap. |
The Motley Fool
November 13, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Big Blue Adds to Its Software Empire In its latest deal, IBM agrees to shell out $5 billion for software powerhouse Cognos. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2010
Anders Bylund |
IBM's Master Plan Takes Shape Big Blue couldn't stay away from inter-business transactions software forever. |
InternetNews
June 13, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Oracle Busts a CRM (On Demand) Move Oracle added a new weapon to fight Salesforce.com and SAP in the battle for on-demand customer relationship management software, acquiring software maker Telephony@Work for an undisclosed sum. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
IBM Reorg Points to Integrated Systems With the consolidation of its software and hardware divisions, IBM is positioning itself to better compete with rivals like Oracle with integrated servers, software and middleware. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Larry Ellison: At It Again This time, it's a $5.8 billion buyout of rival Siebel. So, if this deal passes regulatory muster, Oracle will have gained an enormous base of new customers. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2009 |
International Business... What? It's not hardware that drives Big Blue these days, rather an aggressive focus on solutions that's doing wonders for its bottom line. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Big Blue's Pink Slip Party Turns Green Who says you can't cut to grow? Once more, IBM is a growth story. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
Will SAP's Earnings Renew Investor Optimism? SAP has seen better days and now must find away to break out of its recent stupor to give investors some hope and perhaps regain a bit of its own swagger. |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
The At-Your-Service ASP Let someone else run your enterprise software while you do more important things. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2010
Rich Smith |
IBM Needs a Good Lawyer An inquiry that began at home over software licensing issues has gone international. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Beleaguered BEA Middleware developer BEA turns in a good quarter, despite juggling an options investigation and a hostile takeover attempt from Oracle. |
CRM
December 1, 2005
Alexandra DeFelice |
Oracle and Siebel: What Does It Mean for Customers? End-users are looking for answers as they wait for the planned acquisition to close. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: 3 Tech Stocks for Now Is it time for investors to buy tech? This question is discussed in this video. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Oracle Struts Its Software An acquisition spree over the past several years pays off nicely for Oracle. The enterprise software giant just closed out another impressive quarter, and it may just be getting warmed up. |
CRM
September 1, 2007
Coreen Bailor |
Sizing Up the CRM Situation Software-as-a-service, focus on customer retention and acquisition, and verticalization are factors enabling the market's healthy growth. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2012 |
How to Play the Tech Giant's Earnings Venerable tech giant IBM reported its quarterly earnings after market close today, and the numbers appeared pretty impressive. |
CRM
December 1, 2005
Marshall Lager |
The Competitive Threat SAP, Onyx, and others look to seduce leery customers. The real question is, How is Oracle going to position itself against its competitors, and against itself? |
InternetNews
April 15, 2010 |
IBM's Lessons From Linux: You Can't Control It A top IBM Linux executive details the missteps that Big Blue suffered while coming to terms with its role in the open source OS community. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Watch Out, Oracle: IBM Is Hungry A small but strategic acquisition shines some light on how IBM wants to tackle the competition. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2011
Eric Bleeker |
What's Driving IBM's Profits Forward? Where's IBM generating its sales? |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Predicting Oracle's Next Move PeopleSoft has been assimilated. What will the next target be? |
InternetNews
February 3, 2010 |
IBM Brings Initiate Systems Into the Fold IBM bolstered its data management portfolio with its acquisition of the Chicago-based developer of master data management applications. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2011
Cindy Johnson |
Add It All Up: IBM Is Cheap Diversified businesses that are tough to value can be great values. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2009
Alex Goldman |
IBM Attacks Oracle With Sun Processor Bounty IBM claims to be the only major open source vendor that's increasing its market share and a new offer aims to accelerate the trend. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010 |
Is IBM a Buy? While other tech companies -- such as Apple -- take a lot of heat for hoarding cash, IBM leverages its balance sheet better than any other tech company. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Inna Kuznetsova, Global Executive for Linux, IBM IBM exec Inna Kuznetsova talks about her role at IBM, the challenges she faces and her view on Microsoft's patent allegations and GPL version 3. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2010 |
Power7 Drives IBM's Top Server Performance High-end Power 795 server boasts record-breaking transaction speeds, 256 core processors and IBM's new AIX 7. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2009
Rich Smith |
IBM Needs a Good Lawyer The Justice Department begins investigating possible abuse of IBM's monopoly position in the market for mainframe computers. |
CRM
October 2005
Bailor et al. |
The 2005 Influential Leaders Influential leaders are those who pave the way for others to follow. Here are CRM's top picks: Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle... Greg Gianforte, CEO and Founder, RightNow Technologies... John Roberts, CEO and Cofounder, SugarCRM... etc. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2009 |
IBM, Ubuntu Team on Linux for U.S. The two partners' Microsoft-Free PC effort takes a step forward. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Siebel Stalls, Restarts Will a change in the executive suite make a difference for the struggling software maker? Businesses will always need software. If only the numbers backed up the stock. |
CRM
June 2, 2003
Martin Schneider |
Hosts With the Most (Partners, That Is) ASP partnerships are aimed at giving customers robust CRM at a low price point. But are two vendors better than one? |
