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The Motley Fool
September 18, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Icahn Beats Up BEA Why has the legendary corporate activist set his sights on the struggling software developer? Investors, take note.   |
InternetNews
November 14, 2007
Larry Barrett |
BEA to File Past-Due Financial Reports BEA Systems will try to save its Nasdaq listing and protect itself from future proxy fights with shareholders. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 16, 2008 |
Oracle Prevails in BEA Bid Oracle won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems by raising its bid for the business software maker by 14 percent to $8.5 billion. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2006
Tom Taulli |
To BEA, or Not to BEA? Investors are bidding up the middleware company's stock, but why? Wise investors, beware -- this is a game for the speculators. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Content Without BEA Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison made it clear the company has no intention to sweeten its original offer for BEA Systems. |
InternetNews
October 26, 2007
Christopher Saunders |
BEA Bites Back in Oracle Bid BEA Systems shrugs off Oracle's lambasting over its counterproposal. |
InternetNews
January 16, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Digs Deep to Snare BEA After more than three months of posturing, Oracle finally agrees to pay more than $8.5 billion for the BEA. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Time Runs Out on Oracle Bid For BEA Oracle's bid for BEA expired over the weekend, leaving many to speculate about BEA's future. And at least one of BEA's largest stockholders is on the warpath. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Beating Down BEA The enterprise software firm announced lackluster first-quarter results. Management blamed a weaker IT climate and iffy sales execution. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Oracle Threatens to Walk Away from BEA Deal President Charles Phillips says Oracle has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2004
Tim Goh |
BEA Systems Bucks Up The software company's stock rises on improved second-quarter numbers. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2006
Tom Taulli |
BEA a Cash Cow ... For Now BEA has a great business -- but now, with the strong distribution of Red Hat, JBoss is likely to be a major threat. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Who's Filing Now? Take a look at what lurks in Friday's late filings. Sofnic Solutions... BEA Systems... Kroger... etc. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Is Finish Line Finished? A hedge fund believes the company can best serve shareholders by selling out. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Raises Stakes With BEA Offer Oracle is looking to trump SAP, making a $6.7 billion bid for BEA less than a week after its rival paid a similarly hefty sum for Business Objects. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Tom Taulli |
A Scary Vignette for Investors Though the software developer has been revamping its business, there are signs that its efforts may be coming undone. Investors have grown alarmed as the company's stock price plunged following its first-quarter earnings results. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2006
Paul Shread |
Oracle Hits the Mark Oracle reported quarterly results late Monday that were largely in line with Wall Street expectations... The broader market fell Monday ahead of wholesale inflation data... Embarcadero tumbled after a buyout deal fell through... etc. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Icahn Is Crazy for Snubbing Oracle A bid for BEA is one thing. But a bidding war? No way. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Icahn Handles the Truth at Yahoo! Carl Icahn has sold shares of struggling online giant Yahoo! in each of the past three trading days, enough to take his stake below 5%. |
InternetNews
November 18, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA Lifts Income 11% in Q3 BEA Systems posted a third quarter profit of 11 percent compared to last year, thanks to an uptick in licenses and services for its new AquaLogic product line. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Jim Kerstetter |
BEA: A Little Down In The Valley Not long ago the software maker BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS ) seemed unstoppable. Now rivals are gaining ground. Rather than reassessing his strategies in the face of widespread evidence that they're not working, CEO Alfred Chuang is determined to stay the course. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2006
Tom Taulli |
BEA's Not-So-Beautiful Quarter BEA is betting on a new trend in technology: SOA. But it's taking time to hit critical mass. And until things pick up, the stock price should languish. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Anders Bylund |
BEA Plays a Fool's Game A multi-billion-dollar bidding war is about to start. Or is it? Buying BEA stock today is a gamble that the company's price tag will grow before an eventual sale. A sensible investor might take the gains here and go look for a safer bet. |
InternetNews
May 19, 2004
Clint Boulton |
BEA Abuzz About Project Beehive BEA open sources development platform to make life easier for Java programmers; rival JBoss CEO Marc Fleury throws some stingers at the company. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Barbarians at SunGard The data systems company is going private in a megadeal. Is there a conflict at the top? Bottom line: current shareholders of SunGard don't reap a whole lot of benefit from this deal. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2007
Hamm & Grover |
Tech Gets the Icahn Treatment Carl Icahn is shaking up the landscape in Silicon Valley as companies' revenue growth slows. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Beleaguered BEA Battles Back By all accounts, infrastructure software maker BEA Systems reported strong revenue and income gains yesterday. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
BEA Demands More From Oracle BEA Systems now appears willing to negotiate a sale to Oracle - as long as the price is set at $21 per share. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
Tom Taulli |
More Fallout for BEA Systems For the second time, BEA has disappointed investors on its quarterly report. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
Brian Lawler |
Bradley Offers to Buy Itself The drugmaker's CEO offers to take the company private. But are all buyout offers a good deal for shareholders? |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2012
Anders Bylund |
If Brocade Finds a Partner, It'll Be a Private Affair The maker of networked storage systems has been looking for a buyer since 2009. But nobody has stepped forward to ask for the company's hand in more than 27 months. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Dueling Fools: Private Equity Bear The private equity and M&A space is red-hot, but the risks are major for individual investors. |
InternetNews
August 22, 2005
Jim Wagner |
BEA Picks Plumtree for $200M Middleware vendor BEA Systems acquired corporate portal specialist Plumtree for $200 million in cash. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Open Source Stoking Hot Middleware Market A new study from Gartner shows market leaders' affinities with open source will only help them stay ahead. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Big Game Hunter As usual, Carl Icahn has a good sense of shifts in Corporate America. By taking a position on Time Warner, he's certainly going to be heard. And divvying up some of the assets may produce higher returns for shareholders as well. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Acxiom of Shareholder Evil ValueAct Capital Partners said it plans to abandon its buyout of Acxiom, causing shares of the information-based product development company to tumble. |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: BEA Systems With its sights set on the blossoming service-oriented architecture market, this experienced player rarely surprises investors. Will it be the same when the company reports is fiscal second-quarter 2006 earnings tonight? |
InternetNews
October 15, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Why Oracle's Tops in Takeovers Industry watchers think BEA's days are numbered: Larry Ellison and Oracle have spent years and billions mastering the art of the takeover. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
BEA's CTO Swap Mark Carges to replace the outspoken Scott Dietzen... BEA creats Worldwide Field Organization, encompassing the sales, services and marketing departments. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Who Is Icahn Selling To Now? Lionsgate is looking to buy the Miramax studio from Walt Disney in what looks like a good stylistic match. Will Carl Icahn turn the tables on that deal and coax a bid out of Disney? |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Looking to Beat IBM BEA Systems reports another strong quarter. It has exceeded analysts' expectations and is tempting investors to wonder if it's beating the pants off archrival IBM. |
InternetNews
May 26, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Developers Get a Sip of BEA's 'Liquid Computing' BEA draws the curtain on new SOA offerings, including a technology center, blueprints, Java controls and a demo of the mobile version. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2007 |
Oracle: BEA Worth Less Than Original Offer Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison says any new bid would be below Oracle's initial $17-per-share proposal. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Enterprise Software in 2008: Consolidation and Chaos Loom VCs will lavish more attention on data-management startups as leading vendors snap up niche players. And an acquisition of SAP? It's not as crazy as it sounds. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA Makes Fervent SOA Pitch BEA Systems unveils a real-time version of WebLogic and strengthens its ties to the SOA community. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Clear Channel's Iffy Deal The anticipated private equity buyout of Clear Channel Communications is running into headwinds. This company warrants careful attention from investors. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
Joe Magyer |
Advance Auto Getting Refurbished? Could this stagnant retailer be a leveraged-buyout target? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Icahn's Spotty Track Record Carl Icahn and Yahoo! have made nice, in advance of next week's meeting, but will the peace last? Or is the current calm just the eye of the hurricane? |
