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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
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
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. |
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 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
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. |
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
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
IDC: IBM Brings up the Middle Big Blue led the application deployment software market with $7 billion in middleware revenue last year. BEA and Oracle also had strong showings. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle: All Business, No Show There is little doubt that Oracle will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. The real question is, how quickly? Ellison and his gang need to come up with some organic growth outside of the mainstay database business. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Delivers, Denounces a Rival Oracle's Ellison and his senior executive staff decided to rip into competitor SAP. Ellison then spent a good portion of the conference call outlining the many ways in which Oracle is outperforming its rival in enterprise-management software. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Larry, You Picked A Nasty Fight In taking on heavyweight SAP in the corporate applications software market, Oracle faces very long odds. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Bakes a Fine Cherry Pie Some of the deals for which Oracle paid out $5 billion last year are starting to pay big dividends for the company. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Who's the Next IBM? The tech landscape is getting crowded with wannabe IBM clones. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Oracle Prophecies Shortly, investors will get another earnings report from database and business software giant Oracle, followed by what promises to be an entertaining conference call. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Oracle the Spoiler Again Oracle takes out the big guns to defend its turf against its foe, SAP. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
SAP Boosts Offer For Retek New $629 million bid counters Oracle's $525 million offer for retail software and services firm. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Sun Sets on MySQL Platform specialist Sun Microsystems ponied up $1 billion in cash and assumed options to buy privately held MySQL AB, taking its first step into the database sector. |
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 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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Plus SAP Equals Love Oracle is planning to amend its lawsuit against German rival SAP with some even juicier charges. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Joshua Greenbaum |
Is Ghengis On the Hunt Again? Now that Oracle owns PeopleSoft, and all signs point to a reinvigorated push by Oracle into the enterprise applications space, it's worth wondering who CEO Larry Ellison has in his crosshairs. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2004
Tim Beyers |
PeopleSoft Plays Defense The business software maker inks a deal with IBM, but it isn't likely to dissuade Oracle. |
InternetNews
July 2, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Moving Apps Proves Stable Ground Fueled by IBM, the worldwide market for middleware is strong at least through 2008... BEA and Oracle follow. |
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%. |
Insurance & Technology
January 24, 2005
Wendy Toth |
Things to Come Oracle has spent recent weeks offering prophetic responses to the concerns of PeopleSoft partners, employees and customers as a result of Oracle's $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft, which was announced Dec. 13. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 28, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
PeopleSoft Aligns With IBM and i-flex Technology partnerships impact 1,000 financial services customers. |
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
March 22, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Elementary, My Dear Oracle! Simplicity, not complexity, rules enterprise software. Just ask Larry Ellison. With recent wins at companies like Subaru, Cisco, and Mattel, Oracle appears to be on a roll. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Rivals Circle the Wagons The greatest impact of the Oracle/PeopleSoft merger may be its effect on other software companies, not customers. |
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
November 20, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Will the Sun Set in Oracle's Backyard? Larry Ellison is many things, but never a quitter. He will buy Sun in the end, but the question is why. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2005
David Needle |
Oracle Opens Up to WebSphere Oracle and IBM announced an agreement to make key parts of their software architecture work together. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Currency Fluctuations, Weak App Sales Hit Oracle The troubled economy impacts the database giant's bottom line. |
InternetNews
May 24, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM Blitz Targets Oracle DB Users IBM tries to attract Oracle's database customers with a sales blitz. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2007
Tom Taulli |
webMethods' Last Hurrah With its stock in a rut since 2004, webMethods finally found a way to boost its share price. Last week, the company agreed to sell out to Germany-based Software AG for $546 million in cash. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Fulfills Its Prophecies: Fool by Numbers The fast facts on business software maker Oracle, who just posted their 13th consecutive quarter of 20% or better growth. |
InternetNews
June 24, 2004
Michael Singer |
Gates' E-mail Discussed PeopleSoft Stake Oracle's trial over its PeopleSoft acquisition reveals how rivals reacted to its potential impact on the enterprise software market. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Score One for Oracle The battle continues among the software giants, as SAP makes a surprising admission. The main thing for investors to consider is that Oracle has a clear strategy for growth: buying up companies. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Paul Shread |
Oracle Ignites Tech Stocks Oracle's hostile takeover bid for BEA made traders forget about interest rates and valuations for a day... The chip sector notched its first gain in three days... Blue Nile fell on a Citigroup downgrade... etc. |
