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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
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. |
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
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 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
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
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
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2007
Tom Taulli |
BEA Babbles On Amid continued weakness, the software company attracts even more buyout buzz. While it's impossible to predict these things, one can suspect that shareholders will put ever-greater pressure on BEA to sell. |
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. |
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 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
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
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. |
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
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 22, 2011
Evan Niu |
Clorox to Icahn: "It's Not You, It's Me" Clorox announces that its board has unanimously rejected Icahn's unsolicited bid to acquire the company. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Mentor Could Use Some Guidance Is the company looking to preserve shareholder interest or management paychecks? |
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. |
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. |
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 22, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Oracle's Big Show Will Be BEA's Coming Out Party None other than Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps will join Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at the Oracle OpenWorld conference this week. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2009
Paul Shread |
Sun, Fed Keep Tech Stocks Rallying News that IBM could acquire Sun and aggressive plans by the Federal Reserve to boost the economy sent stocks higher once again on Wednesday, while Oracle kept the party going after hours. |
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
October 16, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: IBM Will Rock for Ages Big Blue reports third-quarter earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
InternetNews
January 7, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle Set to Conclude Merger PeopleSoft becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary. |
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%. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2010
Ryan McBride |
Genzyme Borrows $1 Billion for Stock Buyback Notes will be sold this week. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA Extends WebLogic With Telco Buy Looking to improve the service delivery capabilities in WebLogic, BEA Systems has acquired Incomit, a privately held maker of infrastructure software for telecommunications businesses. |
InternetNews
December 19, 2007
Paul Shread |
Oracle, Accenture Deliver the Goods The tech sector got some welcome news late Wednesday: better than expected quarterly results from Oracle and Accenture... AMD finally broke its losing streak... ADC telecom fell on a $400 million debt offering... etc. |
InternetNews
February 4, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA To Target Telcos With 'Da Vinci' Code BEA is expected to stress SIP and VoIP support in a software suite it plans to unveil Monday. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2008
Tim Beyers |
An Oracle Sell-Off? Woo Hoo! Shares of the database company get cheaper. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2009 |
Oracle Easily Tops 2Q Profit Estimates Oracle managed to hurdle analysts' second-quarter profit and sales targets. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2004
Tim Goh |
BEA Systems Bucks Up The software company's stock rises on improved second-quarter numbers. |
InternetNews
June 10, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA Bets on New Era of Open Computing BEA Systems' launch of its AquaLogic service-oriented architecture family could mean more for the company than a standard foray into distributed computing. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2005
Clint Boulton |
BEA Buys M7 as SOA Market Simmers BEA bought an Eclipse-based tools maker while IBM and Oracle upped their stakes in the service-oriented market. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Proxy Fights 101 How shareholder skirmishes are transforming Wall Street. It's smart to understand how proxy fights work, but don't assume they're a good system for investing. Proxy battles often target struggling companies with volatile stocks. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2006
Brian Lawler |
Unwelcome Guests at ImClone ImClone's board of directors votes against Carl Icahn's proposed removal of six company directors. Short-term shareholders that are able to cash out with Icahn, will possibly have a nice gain to take home. |
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. |
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
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
June 24, 2010 |
Oracle Earnings Ahead: Signs of a Sun Payoff? High expectations for some indications of Sun contributing to Oracle's bottom line. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2006
Tom Taulli |
Oracle's New Enemy: Red Hat Oracle wanted JBoss, but Red Hat beat Larry Ellison to it. But Oracle could crimp another enemy by buying Novell. No doubt, buying a company on buyout speculation is not a good idea. However, in the case of Novell, there is now a group of big prospective buyers. |
