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Oracle: Even $6.7 billion for BEA is too high
CEO Larry Ellison tells analysts that if his company renews bid for middleware maker, it would come at a price below $17 a share.
November 15, 2007 6:13 PM PSTBEA set to file belated financials
Move will reduce risk of Nasdaq delisting and give company greater leverage in any new threat of a proxy fight from shareholder Carl Icahn.
November 14, 2007 4:32 PM PSTBEA gives Icahn access to confidential financials
BEA Systems hopes Carl Icahn, its largest shareholder, will gain a better sense of the company's value after reviewing the documents.
November 5, 2007 10:05 PM PSTBEA's financial restatements key to warding off Icahn
Company needs to get financials in order if it hopes to keep its biggest shareholder from taking control of a possible buyout, legal experts say.
November 3, 2007 1:13 AM PDTOracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems
The $6.7 billion buyout bid is kaput, Oracle says, as BEA holds its ground on a per-share price and investor Carl Icahn agitates for board action.
October 29, 2007 10:01 PM PDTBEA plans to let Oracle buyout offer expire
BEA Systems reiterates its stance that $17 a share is too low and is prepared to let the buyout offer expire Sunday.
October 26, 2007 6:12 PM PDTBEA sets buyout price at $21 a share
Oracle's offer of $17 per share? No thanks, BEA says again. This time, it's countering with what it sees as a better shareholder value.
October 25, 2007 7:58 PM PDTOracle sets deadline for BEA offer
Takeover bid of $17 per share is now set to expire Sunday, unless the middleware company agrees to give shareholders a vote.
October 23, 2007 7:58 PM PDTOracle: BEA canceled meeting at last minute
Oracle and BEA Systems traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's $6.7 billion bid for the company.
October 15, 2007 1:31 PM PDTBuyout could serve both BEA, Oracle
The proposed acquisition could resolve questions about BEA's future growth. Then there's the Carl Icahn factor.
October 12, 2007 5:48 PM PDTBEA to run Java sans operating system
BEA gets virtualization religion, builds edition of Java virtual machine that runs on VMware's hypervisor.
December 11, 2006 2:42 PM PSTAzul: Speed increase for second-gen Java servers
Azul Systems said new Java servers, using Vega 2 processors, run three times faster than predecessors.
Photos: Azul's new Java servers
SOA, the peacemaker
perspective BEA's Marge Breya says the software industry can't afford to keep dividing into contending camps.
October 24, 2006 1:25 PM PDTGoogle, BEA in enterprise portal mashup talks
BEA's chief says businesses understanding that "culturally, there is a new generation of communications."
October 13, 2006 1:30 PM PDTBEA redesigns for SOAs
Company's infrastructure software will be optimized to promote services-oriented architectures.
September 19, 2006 10:18 PM PDTBEA buys Flashline to bulk up SOA line
BEA will gain Flashline's governance tools and repository for storing information on shared software programs.
August 23, 2006 6:15 PM PDTNew server order, new IBM software pricing
Big Blue plans radical move in server pricing, based on "processor value units" instead of actual processors.
July 25, 2006 12:27 PM PDTJava inches closer to open source
Sun plans to open up more Java software, but will stop short of sharing the programming language itself.
May 7, 2007 7:06 PM PDTSun to make Java more Linux-friendly
As JavaOne approaches, plans are afoot to make Java licensing terms more favorable to open-source OSes.
May 5, 2006 1:10 PM PDTReliable-messaging 'profile' passes
The Web Services-Interoperability organization will publish guidelines to conform to reliable-messaging specifications.
May 2, 2006 4:47 PM PDT
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