Oracle to Buy BEA for $8.5 Billion
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Business software maker BEA Systems has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp for $8.5 billion, ending a long negotiation over the value of the company.
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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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Oracle Corp. , the world's top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. , which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said Wednesday in its online edition.
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The tech world is still buzzing about announcements by Sun Microsystems that it will acquire MySQL AB and by Oracle that it will acquire BEA Systems. The deals muddle the middleware market, according to some analysts.
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Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share.
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BEA Systems reiterated on Friday that it would not accept&#160;Oracle&#39;s $17 per share acquisition bid, and also said it would allow&#160;a deadline Oracle had set for Sunday 5 p.m. PDT&#160;to expire.In a public statement -- just the latest salvo in merger talks that have had a distinctly icy quality -- BEA&#39;s vice president of planning and development, William Klein told Oracle President Charles Phillips that the company&#39;s offer was &quot;unacceptable.&quot;&#160;BEA has said it would accept a $21 per share bid.That would result in an $8.3 billion price tag for the company, significantly more than Oracle&#39;s offer, which works out to $6.7 billion. BEA&#39;s stock was trading at about $16.80 per share midday Friday.&quot;As fiduciaries, our Board cannot endorse a proposal that it has concluded significantly undervalues BEA,&quot; Klein said in the statement. &quot;We therefore assume that your proposal will expire on October 28.&quot;An Oracle spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for comment.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Oracle Corp.  said on Thursday it would buy Hyperion Solutions Corp.  for $3.3 billion to boost its position in the fast-growing market for tools to help executives analyze business performance.
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Software maker BEA Systems Inc's  board said on Monday it is holding out for a $21-a-share takeover offer, a day after its larger rival Oracle Corp  withdrew its $17-a-share offer.
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BEA Systems countered Oracle Corp.'s bid for acquiring the company, proposing a price of $21 a share, $4 more than Oracle's initial offer.
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Oracle said Wednesday that it will finally acquire BEA Systems, an enterprise software maker, for about $8.5 billion in cash. The deal agreement marks an end to a strange, months-long kabuki dance in which Oracle abandoned its first bid and both sides seemed to adopt a hard-line bargaining stance. BEA's board unanimously approved Oracle's offer [...].
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Business software maker BEA Systems Inc. has said it will let Oracle Corp.'s $6.7 billion takeover bid expire Sunday, intensifying the pressure on management to prove the company is worth more than the offer it's leaving on the table.
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BEA Systems Inc  shares fell 6.5 percent on Friday to trade below Oracle Corp's  bid for the first time since it was made, as the deadline for the offer loomed with no signs of an agreement.
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BEA Systems Inc  said on Thursday it is willing to sell itself for $8.2 billion, but the price was rejected as "impossibly high" by Oracle Corp , the only company that has publicly expressed interest in the software maker.
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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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Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company.
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Business software maker BEA Systems Inc   has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp  for  $8.5 billion, a 14 percent premium to its first offer, the  companies said on Wednesday.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.