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Oracle's cloud swallows RightNow for $1.5bn

...2007 acquisition of Hyperion for $3.3bn; the $8.5bn purchase of BEA Systems in 2008; and the buys of Sun and Art Technology Group... Read more

24 October, 2011 by Jo Best

Infor makes unsolicited cash bid for Lawson

...the driving force behind many Oracle acquisitions since his appointment, including PeopleSoft, BEA Systems and Siebel Systems. An Infor spokesperson refused to comment on the... Read more

15 March, 2011

Former Oracle co-president Phillips joins Infor

...on board as the company acquired a bevy of companies ranging from BEA Systems to Siebel Systems. This ZDNet UK-selected story originally appeared as... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Larry Dignan
Vendor Insight Vendor Capability Assessment BPM Technology: Oracle

Vendor Insight Vendor Capability Assessment BPM Technology: Oracle

...the strongest technology elements that Oracle brought on board when it acquired BEA Systems in 2008 was BEA's BPM technology offering. In the release... Read more

1 March, 2012

Oracle withdraws BEA buyout bid

Oracle on Sunday pulled its $6.7bn (£3.3bn) buyout offer for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refused to entertain its $17-a-share... Read more

29 October, 2007 by Dawn Kawamoto

Open source picks some new fights

...around its Jonas application server earlier this year. The stack sell IBM, BEA Systems and Oracle sell commercial versions of Java server software suites, which... Read more

22 November, 2004 by Martin LaMonica

SuSE's BEA partnership boosts Java on Linux

SuSE Linux agreed a partnership with BEA Systems on Wednesday that aims to improve the performance of SuSE's... Read more

21 January, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

IBM helps firms charge for Web services

...in a timely manner, Sutor said. Like software rivals Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and others, IBM believes the future of software lies with Web... Read more

27 September, 2002 by Wylie Wong

Palm makes enterprise march with BEA

...Palm announced on Tuesday a long-term deal with enterprise software maker BEA Systems that continues Palm's push into the corporate market. The two... Read more

28 August, 2002 by Richard Shim

Borland, BEA seal Java alliance

...lead in the Java programming tools market through a closer alliance with BEA Systems. The two companies announced on Wednesday a co-marketing agreement in... Read more

15 August, 2002 by Wylie Wong

Sybase revamps portal software

...for their employees, customers or business partners. Sybase competes against IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and others in the growing market for portal... Read more

6 August, 2002 by Wylie Wong
Ten tips for software licensing in a virtual world

Ten tips for software licensing in a virtual world

...need to pay the software house. Some software houses, notably Oracle subsidiary BEA Systems, have abandoned per-socket licensing for at least one product, while... Read more

16 November, 2009 by Manek Dubash

BEA bears the brunt as Oracle hikes prices

...customers only became customers of the company when its fraught takeover of BEA Systems was finally agreed in January this year. BEA shareholders had originally... Read more

23 June, 2008 by Colin Barker
Oracle sheds light on its acquisition strategy

Oracle sheds light on its acquisition strategy

...the company has made efforts to get hold of systems software company BEA Systems. After its initial bid of $6.66bn (£3bn) was rejected, Oracle... Read more

6 March, 2008 by Colin Barker

Questions remain after Oracle's BEA takeover

Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems was a logical move by the software giant but it remains... Read more

23 January, 2008 by Tim Ferguson

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