BEA Systems
Oracle acquisition of BEA closes
Apr. 29, 2008
Oracle has finalized its US$8.5 billion deal to buy BEA Systems following the European Commission's approval, it announced Tuesday.
BEA offers BPM assessment tool
Feb. 14, 2008
Companies looking to assess their readiness for BPM (business process management) are being offered a free tool by BEA Systems.
Billions of dollars, billions of mobile workers
Jan. 18, 2008
Jason and Keith discuss the Sun and Oracle megadeals, whether the upcoming 700MHz auction will be a boom or bust, and whether they can tell the difference between a $90 or $5 bottle of wine.
Oracle, Sun deals shake up middleware market
Jan. 18, 2008
Oracle and Sun are shelling out $9.5 billion combined for the acquisitions of middleware maker BEA Systems and open-source database maker MySQL.
Oracle buys document-capture vendor Captovation
Jan. 17, 2008
On the same day its plans to buy middleware giant BEA Systems rocked the technology world, Oracle also revealed Wednesday that its string of niche acquisitions will continue through the purchase of document-capture ...
Oracle’s 12 acquisitions since January 2007
Jan. 16, 2008
Oracle's deal to purchase BEA Systems for $8.5 billion is the company's 12th acquisition since January 2007. Here's a look at each Oracle purchase and what it means.
BEA stares down Oracle, gets its price
Jan. 16, 2008
Oracle got what it wanted when BEA Systems agreed to a buyout Wednesday for $8.5 billion, but BEA was the real winner.
Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion
Jan. 16, 2008
Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for about $8.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.
Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor
Nov. 12, 2007
Oracle today introduced Oracle VM, a virtualization hypervisor unveiled at the Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco. The open source, Xen-based hypervisor is the latest entry into the virtualization software space, ...
IBM, Microsoft, SAP lag behind on Web 2.0
Nov. 07, 2007
IBM, Microsoft and SAP are taking a charge at the business Web 2.0 market, but the big vendors still lag behind smaller rivals.
Data integration tool goes open source
Nov. 06, 2007
XAware released the latest version of its data integration software development tool, XAware 5, under an open source license, a first for the four-year old company. Data integration software makes it possible to combine ...
Oracle bid for BEA expires as expected
Oct. 29, 2007
BEA Sunday made good on its promise to let a 5 p.m. Pacific Time deadline expire on Oracle's $17-per-share offer to buy the company.
Oracle calls BEA's price 'impossibly high'
Oct. 26, 2007
Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it
Oracle's bid for BEA: the timeline
Oct. 24, 2007
Oracle needed 18 months to complete a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, before purchasing the rival vendor for $10.3 billion in December 2004. The early days of Oracle's bid for BEA Systems do not seem promising if Oracle ...
Oracle and BEA: What happens next?
Oct. 24, 2007
BEA Systems has rejected Oracle's $6.7 billion purchase offer. What happens next is anyone's guess.
Rejected by BEA, Oracle sets bid deadline
Oct. 23, 2007
Oracle Tuesday morning said that BEA Systems has officially rejected its offer to acquire the company. BEA had previously said the offer was too low.
Oracle threatens to drop BEA takeover bid
Oct. 23, 2007
Oracle today threatened to withdraw its bid to purchase BEA Systems if BEA doesn't let its shareholders vote on the proposal by Sunday.
Crazy SOA costs grow sane over time
Oct. 22, 2007
Large-scale SOA projects are costly, but prove their worth over time.
Inside three enterprise SOAs
Oct. 22, 2007
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BEA vs. Peoplesoft: 10 reasons it's different this time
Oct. 18, 2007
On paper, Oracle's recent $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems looks a lot like the hostile bid for PeopleSoft four years ago -- a bad-for-competition, bad-for-employees, bad-for-customers deal designed with one goal in ...
Would BEA disappear under Oracle?
Oct. 12, 2007
Oracle's bid to purchase BEA Systems would eliminate a direct competitor, but analysts say BEA customers probably don't have to worry about Oracle dropping BEA's successful product line.
UPDATE: BEA rejects Oracle's $6.7 billion buyout
Oct. 12, 2007
Oracle Friday announced that it has offered to buy middleware vendor BEA Systems for $17 per share in cash.
Oracle offers to buy BEA
Oct. 12, 2007
Oracle is offering to buy BEA Systems for $17 per share in cash; IBM will integrate its Symphony productivity tools with its Sametime real-time communications platform.
BEA tries on new Tuxedo
Oct. 03, 2007
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BEA ready to lock down Workshop 10.1 code
Jun. 27, 2007
BEA Systems will lock down the code for Workshop 10.1 this Friday in preparation for the Java development tool's release next month.
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BEA profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 60
2004 NW200 rank: 64
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
1200 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
11% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
5% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
143 |
| Change from '04 |
|
9 |
| As percentage of revenue 12 |
|
12 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
3878 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
16
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
309386 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
5660 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1995 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Jan |
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