Oracle to buy Interlace Systems
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As it cools its heels waiting for a response from BEA Systems, Oracle announces plan to buy the operational planning software maker.
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Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion.
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Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for about $8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.The deal comes just three months after&#160;the middleware vendor turned down an earlier offer of $6.7 billion.Oracle hopes that acquiring middleware vendor BEA will&#160;allow it to improve its own middleware suite, Fusion.That middleware is key to helping customers migrate their systems to a services-oriented architecture (SOA), CEO Larry Ellison said in a conference call last month to discuss the company&#39;s earnings.With Fusion already able to link to BEA&#39;s WebLogic Java application server, the deal is likely to speed Oracle&#39;s adoption of Java-based middleware, the company said.Oracle&#39;s customers have been telling it for years to buy BEA, it said.However the members of BEA&#39;s board were less sold on the idea: They&#160;turned down an offer from Oracle of $17 per BEA share in October, saying it &quot;significantly undervalues BEA.&quot; Oracle in turn&#160;dismissed the BEA board&#39;s counter-offer of $21 per share as &quot;impossibly high&quot;.But on Wednesday the companies split the difference, and BEA&#39;s board announced it had unanimously approved Oracle&#39;s latest offer of $19.375 in cash per BEA share.The board accepted only after spending several months looking for other ways to maximize shareholder value, BEA&#39;s chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang said in a statement.The companies expect to close the deal by mid-year, subject to the approval of regulators and BEA shareholders.&#160;
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Oracle expects to complete its &#36;10.3 billion acquisition of business-software rival PeopleSoft by the end of next week and unveil a blueprint for the merged companies Jan. 14, Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison said in a letter to PeopleSoft employees.
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Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 (Â£13.79) per share, or about $10.3bn. The transaction has been approved by both companies&#39; boards of directors and is expected to close by early January.
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DECEMBER 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Oracle Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft Inc. for $26.50 per share, or about $10.3 billion, the companies said today, ending an acrimonious
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Mixes with new crowd Oracle is ending its brief acquisition lull with one of its largest software deals. The database giant will buy Hyperion Solutions, also an Oracle competitor in the business intelligence market and an important partner of SAP, for $3.3bn, or $52 a share - a handsome 21 per cent premium for stockholders.â¦
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InfoWorld - Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions&#160;for $3.3 billion in cash, it said Thursday.
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday agreed to a sweetened $10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker Oracle Corp., relenting after a 18-month takeover saga that included the ouster of PeopleSoft&#39;s chief executive.
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Oracle is offering US$21 per share or about US$7.7 billion for PeopleSoft, a leader in human resources management software and an applications rival of Oracle.
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DECEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Oracle Corp. has taken over control of PeopleSoft Inc. by buying 75% of the PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares from its stockholders, Oracle announced today.
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(InfoWorld) - On Monday, Oracle unveiled an addition to its Fusion middleware, Oracle Data Integrator, to help users quickly bring the huge amounts of information in different databases and applications across their organizations together in a single place. Data Integrator is based on technology Oracle acquired when itÂ purchased French data integration company SunopsisÂ in October, according to Ashish Mohindroo, senior product director for Oracle's Fusion middleware. Customers can use Data Integrator to pull data from different sources into one location, helping them with data analysis and queries in BI and data warehousing applications. But the tool is not limited to BI, Mohindroo said. It can also be helpful for users engaged in master data management, SOA, and BAM (business activity monitoring) as well as application migration and consolidation, he said. One of the main reasons Oracle bought Sunopsis was to improve Fusion's ability to bring in data from non-Oracle products. Data Integrator supports databases, data warehouses, and applications from vendors including IBM, Microsoft, NCR's Teradata, Netezza, and Sybase. Mohindroo wouldn't comment on Oracle's plans to support Hewlett-Packard's offerings other than to note that HP continues to be a partner.Â HP has been ramping up its data warehousing business recently, debuting its Neoview data warehouse software, server, and storage product family in October. Data Integrator competes with Informatica's PowerCenter data integration software and IBM's rival Information Serverm, which it gained through theÂ 2005 $1.1 billion purchase of Ascential. Oracle inherited an OEM relationship with Informatica through itsÂ acquisition of applications vendor Siebel. In October, Oracle and Informatica reaffirmed that partnership, extending it for four years. The release of Data Integrator won't affect that relationship, Mohindroo said. "We offer it as an alternative to Data Integrator," he added. "Customers can pick and choose." Naturally, Data Integrator is also optimized to work with Oracle's own database, application server, SOA Suite, and BAM software. Customers can use the tool to build data warehouses that are then queried by Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition. Oracle shipped the most recent version of that software last week with a focus on tighter integration with Oracle's own applications and new native access to applications rival SAP's Business Information Warehouse. Oracle BI Suite EE 10g Release 3.0 also features a lot of work the vendor has done on the usability side, said Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion middleware, including enhanced integration with Microsoft's Office desktop applications suite and drag-and-drop layout editing. Oracle Data Integrator is now shipping at a cost of $12,000 per database target CPU and $4,000 per database source CPU. Users can also try out an evaluation copy of the software online. Â
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It has agreed that the company should be sold to Oracle for $26.50 a share, roughly $10.3 billion, $1.5 billion more than Oracle&#39;s now-famous &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday agreed  to a sweetened $10.3 billion buyout by rival software maker  Oracle Corp., relenting after a 18-month takeover saga that  included the ouster of PeopleSoft's chief executive.
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Software maker PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. in a $10.3 billion deal, ending one of the longest and nastiest takeover battles in recent corporate history.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Business software maker Oracle Corp. will buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion in cash, renewing a shopping spree aimed at toppling rival SAP AG.
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Oracle finally clinched its bid to scoop up PeopleSoft on Monday, saying it had agreed to purchase the rival business software group for $26.50 a share or $10.3bn.