Oracle

Larry Ellison's Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

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Larry Ellison lands a smasher with the aquisition of Sun Microsystems. In early April IBM was in negotiations with Sun, but then left the table as Sun's board did not move forward. Now we know why. Sun most likely was already in talks back then with Oracle.
Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.

"The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system - applications to disk - where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up."

SAP is Oracle's biggest competitor. What OS is left to buy for them? It will be interesting how Oracle will play the enterprise market place now with Sun Solaris, Java and Sun hardware in the offering. Read more

Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:30:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Oracle buys Primavera Software

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Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2008. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. Read more

Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:50:22 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Oracle to buy BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

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Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BEA Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise application infrastructure solutions.

The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA's cash on hand of $1.3 billion. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:48:26 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Oracle introduces 11g

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Time flies, Oracle introduces their new database version 11g.

Oracle 11g comes with more than 400 features, 15 million test hours, and 36,000 person-months of development.
Oracle says the 11g database is the most innovative and highest quality software product the company has ever announced. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:01:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SAP finally responds to Oracle Complaint

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Oracle sued SAP back in March for corporate theft. Today SAP filed an answer to the Oracle complaint.

In the answer, SAP said TomorrowNow was authorized to download materials from Oracle's Web site on behalf of TomorrowNow customers. At the same time, SAP acknowledged that some inappropriate downloads of fixes and support documents occurred at TomorrowNow. Importantly, SAP affirmed that what was downloaded at TomorrowNow stayed in that subsidiary's separate systems. SAP did not have access to Oracle intellectual property via TomorrowNow. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jul 2007 02:03:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Oracle Sues SAP for Corporate Theft

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Oracle Corp. filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against SAP AG, alleging spying and "corporate theft on a grand scale."

Oracle claims that SAP employees used login information for Oracle customers to illegally access confidential material on Oracle's customer support Web site.

Oracle and SAP are in a long running rivalry. This lawsuit marks a new high point.
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