With Oracle in Pursuit, the Quarry Sets Its Price
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Oracle rejected as âimpossibly highâ BEAâs offer to be acquired for about $8.2 billion, just two weeks after BEA refused Oracleâs $6.7 billion offer for the company.
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It&#39;s been a good year for Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison. In all, Oracle posted breathtaking earnings gains, beat a Justice Department lawsuit, forced the firing of a key rival, and
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Oracle has increased the price it is willing to pay for an additional stake in i-flex solutions, a vendor of financial software in Mumbai, India.
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A Register History The tale of Oracle&#39;s attempt to buy Peoplesoft is a story of Larry Ellison&#39;s relentless pursuit of his target in the face of implacable hostility from the PeopleSoft board.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. , the third-largest software maker, gave BEA Systems Inc.'s directors five days to consider a $6.7 billion takeover offer before it expires. BEA said it can't accept Oracle's price.
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With Oracle cinching a critical antitrust victory on Thursday, PeopleSoft will find it increasingly difficult to resist its rival&#39;s $7.
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As Oracle embarks on one of the software industry's largest acquisitions in history with its $10.3 billion purchase of PeopleSoft, it needs to show it can chew what it has bitten off.
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Melding a hodgepodge of different software makers into a cohesive business is supposed to be difficult. But Oracle Corp. is making the task look easy as the Redwood Shores-based company churns out one impressive quarter after another, nearly three years into a $25 billion shopping spree that is yielding bigger dividends than many skeptical software analysts and executives anticipated.
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An investment approach straight from the Oracle's mouth.
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Oracle may be willing to spend a record sum -- over $6 billion -- to acquire a middleware provider it believes will give it a permanent leg up on Microsoft's SQL Server. Does it still take a huge M&A like this to stay on par with Microsoft?
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Oracle won a key legal victory in its quest to buy PeopleSoft last week, but the grueling war for control of its software rival is far from over, industry analysts say.
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With a major hurdle out of the way but a few more tough ones up ahead, Oracle&#39;s bid to buy PeopleSoft could boil down to one question: What price is right?
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It&#39;s been a heck of a week for the software industry. First there was Oracle&#39;s Dec. 13 long-sought-after deal to acquire rival PeopleSoft (PSFT ) for $10.3 billion.
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Last night, database maker Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) once again extended its $7.7 billion offer for business software provider PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT).
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Bolstered by investors, Oracle Corp. appears destined to complete its long-sought takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. unless its rival becomes more profitable and proves it's worth more than the $9.2 billion bid currently on the table.
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The rapidly growing software company gets the price it wants from HP.
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While PeopleSoft continues to fend off OracleÂs takeover bid, a subplot is unfolding in the world of corporate software.