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InternetNews
October 5, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Data Management, Virtualization Top VC Wish List Innovation within the software industry combined with the astounding success of VMware's IPO has venture capitalists looking high and low for the next great software company.   |
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. |
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 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
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. |
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
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
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
January 16, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Oracle Caves Oracle agrees to acquire middleware maker BEA for $8.5 billion. |
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
December 17, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Topping Hollywood: Software's Frenzied Year SaaS, SOA and Virtualization hit new heights in adoption and hype during 2007, while SAP and Oracle continued their grudge match. Here's a look back at some of the most significant software stories from 2007. |
InternetNews
October 8, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Shareholders, Analysts Pan SAP's Strategic About-Face SAP, which has long lauded the virtue of growing from within, took some heat Monday after paying $6.8 billion to acquire Business Objects. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Michael Singer |
More Mega Mergers if Oracle Succeeds The quest for PeopleSoft was the tip of the iceberg, say analysts. |
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
December 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Currency Fluctuations, Weak App Sales Hit Oracle The troubled economy impacts the database giant's bottom line. |
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
February 25, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Microsoft and SAP? Get Real Would Microsoft be better paired with German business software giant SAP than with Yahoo!? |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Finding the Next Tech Takeover Stock Who's next on the tech industry's shopping list? |
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. |
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
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
February 7, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Vendors Jockey For BI Pole Position IBM, SAP and Oracle slug it out for business intelligence dominance. But will customers win? |
CRM
July 1, 2009
Marshall Lager |
Matching Pie Slices to Plates As more vendors enter the on-demand CRM arena, profit may be harder to come by. Is consolidation the answer? |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2010
Stone & Ricadela |
Oracle's Larry Ellison Beats Up on His Rivals--Again Oracle's public attacks on rivals are a sign that competition is heating up in enterprise computing. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Software Tops VC Spending List Venture capital spending surged to its highest level in more than five years last quarter, and software companies were the biggest beneficiaries. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Shatters 1Q Estimates Another blockbuster earnings report from Oracle ratchets up the pressure on arch-rival SAP. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Oracle Prepared to Drop PeopleSoft Bid Oracle will drop its efforts to block PeopleSoft's defense to Oracle's hostile takeover bid if PeopleSoft's shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by Nov. 19, according to an Oracle letter sent to a Delaware court. |
InternetNews
July 2, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Trial Comes Full Circle It began with Microsoft/SAP acquisition plans and ended with IBM 's notes on how to create FUD. |
InternetNews
June 7, 2004
Michael Singer |
PeopleSoft's Standing Debated at Trial The DoJ's argument to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft hinges on the Global 2000's view of competition in the ERP marketplace. |
InternetNews
November 9, 2007
Larry Barrett |
IBM's Secret SaaS IBM needs to adapt to the SaaS model that's changing the way customers buy, access and share communications software. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Who Will Win The SAP, Oracle Battle? While SAP and Oracle continue to slug it out for the lion's share of the estimated $30 billion-plus that companies spend for business applications and services each year, Salesforce.com's software-as-a-service model is propelling the company to record sales and earnings. |
CRM
October 2012 |
Oracle Recognizes the Need for Change Mark Hurd is no stranger to big success. In his five years as president and CEO of HP, he was credited with righting the company's financially struggling ship. Now, starting his third year as president of Oracle, he is steering yet another big ship on a completely new course. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle-PeopleSoft Saga: A Market Ripple Effect The stars are aligning for Oracle's acquisition plans for PeopleSoft. But keep your eye on what all the players in enterprise software applications do if the deal goes through, analysts say. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2005
Michael Singer |
Enterprise Braces for Oracle's Impact Government, financial services and manufacturing are the enterprise sectors that will feel the first ripple effect of the new Oracle, according to research published this week. |
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
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. |
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
June 7, 2004
Achim Sawall |
Microsoft, SAP Considered Merger At the start of Oracle's takeover trial, Redmond's secrets are being exposed. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Does Oracle Foresee Trouble? All of the deal-making at Oracle could be masking problems in the database business. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2010
Madway & Randewich |
Oracle Unveils New Hardware for Managing Cloud Computing Oracle focuses on the cloud in competition with IBM and HP. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Has Larry Ellison Gone Crazy? With the PeopleSoft proposal unresolved, the Oracle chief preaches more acquisitions. |
InternetNews
September 9, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Prevails in DoJ Suit to Block PeopleSoft The company said the decision removes a significant roadblock to the acquisition. |
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
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. |
