January 16, 2008 5:06 AM PST
Oracle to buy BEA for $8.5 billion
Last modified: January 16, 2008 7:25 AM PST
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Ending contentious three-month courtship driven by Carl Icahn, Oracle agrees to top by 14 percent offer rejected by BEA last year.
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- I think you mean shares of BEA went up 18%, not Oracle
- The last paragraph is incorrect...
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- I think you mean shares of BEA went up 18%, not Oracle
- The last paragraph is incorrect...
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- System Admins are nervous
- Lots of excitement and change in the web application server market right now -- but excitement and change are not what system administrators want. For this group, uncertainty is frightening. With today?s announcement of Oracle acquiring BEA, many companies are going to be faced with migration decisions or decisions on how to effectively support a mixed environment of web application servers. There needs to be a way to easily migrate applications from one web application server to others (even if different flavors ? WebSphere, BEA, Oracle, JBoss?). Industry analysts estimate that as much as 40% of all down time is attributable to configuration errors. Configuration chaos may soon present itself as customers try to migrate to or from Oracle OAS and Fusion or to and from BEA. My company, Phurnace, has a great approach to solving this problem. Check out www.phurnace.com for more information. ? Daniel Nelson, Phurnace co-founder and former system administrator
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- System Admins are nervous
- Lots of excitement and change in the web application server market right now -- but excitement and change are not what system administrators want. For this group, uncertainty is frightening. With today?s announcement of Oracle acquiring BEA, many companies are going to be faced with migration decisions or decisions on how to effectively support a mixed environment of web application servers. There needs to be a way to easily migrate applications from one web application server to others (even if different flavors ? WebSphere, BEA, Oracle, JBoss?). Industry analysts estimate that as much as 40% of all down time is attributable to configuration errors. Configuration chaos may soon present itself as customers try to migrate to or from Oracle OAS and Fusion or to and from BEA. My company, Phurnace, has a great approach to solving this problem. Check out www.phurnace.com for more information. ? Daniel Nelson, Phurnace co-founder and former system administrator
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- Employees should be nervous
- How many BEA employees will get axed? Oracle has a sorry track record in this regard... acquisition by Oracle should scare any employee.
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- Employees should be nervous
- How many BEA employees will get axed? Oracle has a sorry track record in this regard... acquisition by Oracle should scare any employee.
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