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Oracle Updates Entire
Family of Oracle Berkeley
DB Embeddable Databases
Oracle announced new
releases of Oracle
Berkeley DB, Oracle
Berkeley DB XML and
Oracle Berkeley DB Java
Edition. The new releases
and enhancements signify
Oracle's commitment to
continued innovation
across the Oracle
Berkeley DB product
family, while maintaining
...
Jul. 3, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 854
Dana Gardner says:
'Someone had to pull the
trigger, and few
companies could better
leverage and extend the
value of BEA
than...Oracle.' In
addition to Gardner, read
what Om Malik, Eric
Savitz, Ray Wang, Jeff
Nolan, Jason Bell and
Curt Monash
think...here's what...
'Our continuing support
commitment has been amply
demonstrated with all of
our previous
acquisitions, including
PeopleSoft and Siebel.
BEA will be no
different,' he said. 'The
acquisition of BEA by
Oracle will enable an
increase in engineering
resources that will ...
In the view of Rob
Hailstone, Software
Infrastructure Practice
Director with IT research
and advisory organization
Butler Group, the
combination of HP and
BEA, if executed well,
would create a
significant force in the
industry. BEA has been
very successful in
pa...
Former JBoss maestro Marc
Fleury has been
considering the
contenders in any race to
counter-bid for BEA in
the face of Oracle's
$6.6BN bid. His
conclusion: Most of the
big players would be
better off buying Red
Hat. 'Red Hat is a
better, and potentially
cheaper,...
BEA's Board of Directors
is unlikely to accept
Oracle's offer of $17 a
share by Sunday, when the
Oracle-set deadline for
acceptance expires. It
says that it would only
be willing to begin
discussing a sale of the
company if the offer
price were $21 per share.
BEA ...
Carl Icahn, BEA's biggest
shareholder with approx
15% of its stock, has
told a reporter that it
is 'insane' for the
company to reject out of
hand Oracle's unsolicited
bid. 'I'm not saying I
accept $17,' Icahn told
Reuters. 'It's going to
be a three-month
process.'...
'BEA shareholders should
not assume that Oracle
will renew its $17 per
share offer in the
future,' thundered an
announcement dispatched
to the wires yesterday by
Oracle just hours after
the lapse of its 5PM
Pacific Time deadline for
the acceptance by BEA
sharehold...
