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Oracle: Even $6.7 billion for BEA is too high

November 15, 2007 6:13 PM PST

CEO Larry Ellison tells analysts that if his company renews bid for middleware maker, it would come at a price below $17 a share.

BEA set to file belated financials

November 14, 2007 4:32 PM PST

Move will reduce risk of Nasdaq delisting and give company greater leverage in any new threat of a proxy fight from shareholder Carl Icahn.

BEA gives Icahn access to confidential financials

November 5, 2007 10:05 PM PST

BEA Systems hopes Carl Icahn, its largest shareholder, will gain a better sense of the company's value after reviewing the documents.

BEA's financial restatements key to warding off Icahn

November 3, 2007 1:13 AM PDT

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.

Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems

October 29, 2007 10:01 PM PDT

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.

BEA plans to let Oracle buyout offer expire

October 26, 2007 6:12 PM PDT

BEA Systems reiterates its stance that $17 a share is too low and is prepared to let the buyout offer expire Sunday.

BEA sets buyout price at $21 a share

October 25, 2007 7:58 PM PDT

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.

Oracle sets deadline for BEA offer

October 23, 2007 7:58 PM PDT

Takeover bid of $17 per share is now set to expire Sunday, unless the middleware company agrees to give shareholders a vote.

Oracle: BEA canceled meeting at last minute

October 15, 2007 1:31 PM PDT

Oracle and BEA Systems traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's $6.7 billion bid for the company.

Buyout could serve both BEA, Oracle

October 12, 2007 5:48 PM PDT

The proposed acquisition could resolve questions about BEA's future growth. Then there's the Carl Icahn factor.

BEA to run Java sans operating system

December 11, 2006 2:42 PM PST

BEA gets virtualization religion, builds edition of Java virtual machine that runs on VMware's hypervisor.

Azul: Speed increase for second-gen Java servers

December 5, 2006 3:24 PM PST

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

October 24, 2006 1:25 PM PDT

perspective BEA's Marge Breya says the software industry can't afford to keep dividing into contending camps.

Google, BEA in enterprise portal mashup talks

October 13, 2006 1:30 PM PDT

BEA's chief says businesses understanding that "culturally, there is a new generation of communications."

BEA redesigns for SOAs

September 19, 2006 10:18 PM PDT

Company's infrastructure software will be optimized to promote services-oriented architectures.

BEA buys Flashline to bulk up SOA line

August 23, 2006 6:15 PM PDT

BEA will gain Flashline's governance tools and repository for storing information on shared software programs.

New server order, new IBM software pricing

July 25, 2006 12:27 PM PDT

Big Blue plans radical move in server pricing, based on "processor value units" instead of actual processors.

Java inches closer to open source

May 7, 2007 7:06 PM PDT

Sun plans to open up more Java software, but will stop short of sharing the programming language itself.

Sun to make Java more Linux-friendly

May 5, 2006 1:10 PM PDT

As JavaOne approaches, plans are afoot to make Java licensing terms more favorable to open-source OSes.

Reliable-messaging 'profile' passes

May 2, 2006 4:47 PM PDT

The Web Services-Interoperability organization will publish guidelines to conform to reliable-messaging specifications.