Oracle News Desk

(October 11, 2007) - Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availabilit... (more)

(October 12, 2007) - Early this morning Oracle said that it had sent the BEA board a letter on Tuesday offering to buy the company for roughly $6.66 billion, a provocative number. The offer is for $17-a-share cash, a 25% premium over yesterday’s close.  BEA has been an Orac... (more)

(October 12, 2007) - Oracle is open sourcing a Call Interface (OC18) database driver for PHP, describing it as bringing "breakthrough scalability to PHP applications" and enhancing it as a viable development environment for mission-critical applications. The driver, it said, supp... (more)

(October 16, 2007) - The convergence of Web 2.0 mashups and service-oriented architecture – a.k.a. the Enterprise Mashup – can create a world of opportunities for enterprises to come up with internal and customer-facing self-service, composite and "situational" applic... (more)

(October 25, 2007) - BEA's Board of Directors is unlikely to accept Oracle's offer of $17 a share by Sunday, when the Oracle-set deadline for acceptance expires. It says that it would only be willing to begin discussing a sale of the company if the offer price were $21 per share.... (more)

(October 24, 2007)- Former JBoss maestro Marc Fleury has been considering the contenders in any race to counter-bid for BEA in the face of Oracle's $6.6BN bid. His conclusion: Most of the big players would be better off buying Red Hat. "Red Hat is a better, and potentially cheape... (more)

(October 19, 2007) - It's unclear where BEA is going to run and hide to avoid a shotgun wedding, but its board late Friday rejected Oracle's $6.66 billion marriage proposal. In a letter to Oracle that the board made public it expressed irritation that Oracle had made its wooing ... (more)

(October 19, 2007) - In the view of Rob Hailstone, Software Infrastructure Practice Director with IT research and advisory organization Butler Group, the combination of HP and BEA, if executed well, would create a significant force in the industry. Alfred Chuang's BEA has been ve... (more)

(October 27, 2007) - Billionaire Carl Icahn, BEA's biggest shareholder with approx 15% of its stock, has told a reporter that it is "insane" for the company to reject out of hand Oracle's unsolicited bid. "I'm not saying I accept $17," Icahn told Reuters. "It's going to be a thre... (more)

(October 29, 2007) - "BEA shareholders should not assume that Oracle will renew its $17 per share offer in the future," thundered an announcement dispatched to the wires yesterday by Oracle just hours after the lapse of its 5PM Pacific Time deadline for the acceptance by BEA shar... (more)

(October 29, 2007) - After playing coy for a couple of weeks BEA came out Thursday and told Oracle what its price is: a probably unrealistic $21 a share, a number close to $8.2 billion rounding up, roughly $1.6 billion more than Oracle has offered. Oracle, meanwhile, has already ... (more)

(October 31, 2007) - Hmmm. Oracle may be having a problem with its vaunted next-generation Project Fusion meant to lash all the software it's acquired together with its homegrown stuff. Seems the guy running Fusion, senior VP John Wookey, is being replaced by Thomas Kurian, head ... (more)

(November 2, 2007) - November 15, BEA will report its financial results for the third quarter, with investors having the opportunity to listen to its financial results conference call over the Internet. Both Larry Ellison and Carl Icahn will doubtless be waiting with considerable... (more)

(November 14, 2007) - JackBe has announced enterprise mashup support for Oracle Fusion Middleware. JackBe’s enterprise mashup platform – Presto, a family of products for enterprise mashup solutions that combines SOA and AJAX into enterprise mashups and rich Web applic... (more)

(November 22, 2007) - Reuters thought to call Tom Hogan, the head of HP Software, and ask him whether HP, whose own adventure into web servers was a disaster, was interested in buying BEA. Tom said no. HP has relationships with BEA's rivals on behalf of its management software an... (more)

(November 23, 2007) - Amway Corporation selected a virtualized IBM server infrastructure for a worldwide rollout of Oracle's enterprise resource planning applications. The decision to run the applications on hundreds of virtual servers, rather than an equivalent number of physic... (more)

(November 13, 2007) - Pillar Data Systems announced its support for Oracle VM, the server virtualization software, Oracle introduced in a separate announcement. Launched at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications... (more)

(November 15, 2007) - "If we made another offer, the price would be lower," Oracle's Larry Ellison told those who gathered last night at Oracle's annual financial analyst meeting in San Francisco. "Clearly the $17 price seems too high now," Ellison warned, in what those there wer... (more)

( November 12, 2007) - Oracle has announced Oracle VM, server virtualization software that supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM. Customers hav... (more)

(November 8, 2007) - Today's SOA practitioners find their greatest architecture challenges addressing reliability and scalability for composite applications and processing large XML payloads. This session presents a breakthrough design for SOAs that deliver continuous availabilit... (more)