Oracle buys document capture vendor Captovation
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Continuing its string of niche acquisitions, Oracle Corp. said it will purchase document-capture vendor Captovation for an undisclosed sum.
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Hewlett-Packard plans to buy datacenter automation software vendor OpswareÂ for about $1.6 billion. It's the third-largest acquisition in HP's history after its multibillion-dollar purchases of Compaq and Mercury.
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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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NewsGator has signed an agreement to resell the RSS feed-generation engine of /n Software, which will let its corporate users use RSS to access data stored in databases, spreadsheets and business apps.
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Oracle continues to snap up smaller software companies even while it battles to acquire middleware vendor BEA. On Wednesday Oracle said it had agreed to buy Interlace Systems, which makes operations planning software, for an undisclosed price.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is making content and records management tools available to users of its database in a bid to gain share in the base-level content management software market. Released Wednesday, Content Database (Content DB) and Records Database (Records DB) are optional add-ons to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. The tools are designed to help Oracle customers and partners securely manage unstructured content such as Microsoft Office documents, PDF (portable document format) files, document images and graphics. Oracle firstÂ announced the two offeringsÂ in June, positioning them as part of the company's plan to bring content management to the masses. Using the tools, users can capture, classify, retain and then get rid of content based on internal corporate policies. Content DB allows organizations to consolidate their unstructured content into an Oracle Database repository, while Records DB manages the storage and disposal of content. On a Tuesday conference call to discuss Oracle'sÂ first-quarter fiscal 2007 financial results, Charles Phillips, company co-president, singled out Content DB and Records DB as future revenue generators for Oracle. Oracle doesn't view Content DB and Records DB as replacements for enterprise content management (ECM) software from the likes of EMC's Documentum, FileNet, IBM, Interwoven, and Open Text. Instead, Oracle has positioned its tools asÂ providing more basic functionality, while the traditional ECM companies focus on offering more sophisticated capabilities. However, moves by Oracle and Microsoft to enter the lower levels of the content management market are one of the factors leading toÂ consolidation in the ECM market. Last month, IBM announced a bid toÂ acquire FileNet for $1.6 billion, while Open Text moved in on ECM rival Hummingbird making aÂ $489 million offerÂ for the company. With Open Text publicly supporting the June unveiling of Content DB and Records DB and increasing its closeness to Oracle, some analysts are predicting the database and applications vendor may end up acquiring Open Text for its ECM expertise. Users can download Content DB and Records DB from Oracle's Web site. Both tools are priced at $50,000 per processor. The two products run on most Oracle Database platforms including Linux, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, Sun Microsystems' Solaris, and IBM's AIX5L. There's also a client version of Content DB which runs on Microsoft's Windows.
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Business software giant Oracle Corp. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc. after sweetening its offer by 10 percent to approximately $10.3 billion. -The Washington Post
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.  said on Thursday it would buy rival software company Hyperion Solutions Corp.  for $3.3 billion, or $52 a share.
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TechWeb - Acquisition lets vendor plug hole in product line and dig deeper into open source market.
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NEW YORK -- 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 yesterday in its online edition.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard plans to buy datacenter automation software vendor Opsware for about $1.6 billion.
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Content management software vendor for small businesses will buy rival for $11.1 million.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Computer and printer company Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it will buy data center automation software company Opsware Inc. for about $1.6 billion.
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Through partnerships with leading technology vendors intended to leverage the capabilities of Oracle Files 10g, Oracle has announced evidence of strong support for its content management offering.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. has shipped a new version of Portal's billing and revenue management software after winning a hard-fought battle to acquire Portal earlier this year. Portal's software is designed to let communications and media companies bill and manage a range of services including wireline and wireless phones, broadband, cable, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), IP television, music and video. The application can handle both prepaid and postpaid services as well as different billing plans such as family and corporate calling plans. Now known as Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Oracle made version 7.3 of the Portal software generally available Monday. The focus of the new release is improved systems management capabilities including a real-time centralized operations management console and a performance optimization dashboard, according to Jennifer Kyriakakis, director of product marketing at Oracle. The new version has strong ties into Hewlett-Packard Co.'s OpenView systems management software and can also hook into consoles from other systems management software vendors, she said. Acquiring Portal was a strategic move on Oracle's behalf. It was part of the vendor's endeavors to build up domain expertise across a number of vertical industries, said Bhaskar Gorti, a senior vice president at Oracle. Previously at Portal, he now heads Oracle's newly formed communications global business unit, which houses what was Portal. In creating the new business unit, Oracle intends to emulate the approach it took last year when it set up a new retail business unit based on its purchase of retail management software vendor Retek, he added. Oracle first announced plans to purchase Portal for around US$220 million in April butÂ had to renew its tender offer for the company twice in the wake of some Portal shareholder opposition to the deal. "I was a little surprised it took so long; we all were," Gorti said. "But we were very confident that we'd done the necessary due diligence and that the deal would get completed." Oracle officially took over Portal in late June and completed the buy in early July having acquired more than 88 percent of Portal's outstanding stock. Oracle has since purchased the remaining stock and now owns 100 percent of Portal, Gorti said. The database and applications vendor is working on integrating Portal's billing and revenue management into its ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications as well as tightening the existing ties between Portal and the CRM (customer relationship management) software Oracle acquired through the purchase of Siebel. Definitely on the agenda is a plan to integrate Portal's software with Oracle's General Ledger (GL) application, Gorti said. Portal already integrates with the GL of Oracle's main applications rival SAP AG. Although Portal has focused on the telecommunications and media industries, Gorti confirmed that Oracle is looking to expand the use of the software to other vertical industries, though he declined to name which ones. Oracle intends to provide more details on its planned road map for the Portal products and technology later this month at its OpenWorld user conference in San Francisco, Gorti said. Â
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EMC announced its intentions to acquire publicly held Document Sciences for approximately $85 million in cash. Document Sciences provides enterprises with software for creating and delivering personalized, multichannel communications to customers, partners, and suppliers.
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InfoWorld - Adobe Systems on Tuesday is announcing Adobe Captivate 2, an upgraded version of its Flash-based software for developing computer-based demonstrations and interactive simulations.