BEA Systems in Fight With Icahn
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29 -- After shooing away Oracle's $6.7 billion takeover bid, BEA Systems dug in its heels for a potentially disruptive battle with its largest shareholder, activist investor Carl C. Icahn.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said  on Friday a sale of BEA Systems Inc  to a strategic  acquirer would maximize the value of its shares and that he  might seek to nominate directors to the software maker&#39;s board.
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(InfoWorld) - Capitalizing on the industry's virtualization trend, BEA Systems has fashioned a per-instance model for its virtualization software in an attempt to do what a company official said better reflects usage patterns. The strategy affects BEA WebLogic Server -- Virtual Edition. Instead of a per-CPU pricing based on the deployment of the software, users instead will pay $13,000 for each instance of the application server running in its own virtual machine, said Mark Pritchard, BEA director of product marketing for BEA virtualization tools. "We believe [the pricing model] is unique in the industry," Pritchard said. WebLogic Server -- Virtual Edition is a Java environment for virtualized hardware. Featuring BEA's application server, a Java Virtual machine and operating system compression, more applications per server are enabled. The product is shipping now. "What we realized is that once we moved into this new world of virtualization, we need to think again about how we price our software," said Pritchard. For applications running on dedicated servers, CPU-based pricing is common, he noted. But virtualization breaks new ground. "The reality is that virtualization opens up many exciting new opportunities about how customers can choose to deploy their applications and how they can respond to business and operational needs in a flexible way," Pritchard said. The CPU-based pricing model is not appropriate as customers moved to virtualized data centers, according to Pritchard. The per-instance model is suited for disaster recovery scenarios and where an application workload changes over time, Pritchard explained. BEA's per-instance plan "absolutely makes sense," said Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Burton Group. "It's not uncommon for a virtual machine cluster to be comprised of physical servers with different CPU characteristics (two-way, four-way, etc)," Wolf said. "That being said, simply having a VM fail over from a two-way server to a four-way server would violate WebLogic licensing per the old model. The new licensing model is much more reflective of the modern virtualized data center and is one that other ISVs should follow." Asked if customers would end up paying more money to BEA under the new per-instance model, Pritchard noted that customers can deploy the software on systems running many CPUs. A customer may be deploying to a 16-CPU box, he said. "Here, your pricing is tied directly to how much you're using the software," Pritchard said. BEA will examine whether to price its other technologies using the same per-instance paradigm, but right now the plan is limited to the Virtual Edition, said Pritchard.
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Business software giant Oracle remained at odds Friday with BEA Systems over a potential takeover bid after the two rivals exchanged letters holding firm to their positions over the price for BEA.
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BOSTON  â The investor Carl C. Icahn said on Monday that he was trying to get three supporters elected to the board of the biotechnology firm Biogen Idec because of concerns over the sales process.
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Oracle  withdrew its $6.7 billion bid for business software maker BEA Systems  on Sunday, setting the stage for a proxy battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the BEA board.
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Micron Technology belongs to one of the most legally contentious industries in the world. The world&#39;s third-largest maker of electronic memory faces more than 25 class-action
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Mylan Laboratories Inc. may have found the white knight it needs to check Carl Icahn&#39;s attempts to kill its $4 billion plan to acquire King Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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Not to be outdone by rival Oracle, BEA Systems has unveiled version 9.0 of its WebLogic Server application server. Homing in on the theme of service-oriented architecture deployment, BEA said the product would
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After shooing away Oracle Corp.'s $6.7 billion takeover bid, business software maker BEA Systems Inc. dug in its heels for a potentially disruptive battle with its largest shareholder, activist investor Carl Icahn.
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Carl Icahn has launched another of his multibillion-dollar shock-and-awe raids for a company - this time on the nation&#39;s biggest generic drug maker, Mylan.
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BEA Systems Inc. is planning to release this week a new version of its application suite targeted at its ISV partners. WebLogic Platform ISV Edition is an integrated suite that features core BEA technology
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Veteran financier Carl Icahn said it was &quot;reprehensible and insulting&quot; that the board of drug maker Mylan Laboratories Inc.
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Robert Sutor, IBM&#39;s director of WebSphere Foundation Software, told ZDNet UK on Friday at a press briefing in Montpellier that the open-source application server JBoss was more of threat to BEA than to IBM&#39;s own application server software WebSphere.
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After shooing away Oracleâs $6.7 billion takeover bid, BEA dug in its heels for a potentially disruptive battle with its largest shareholder, the activist investor Carl Icahn.