• BEA names its price

    2007-11-11

    The board of directors at BEA Systems has named an acquisition price to suitor Oracle, and wants $21 a share, $4 more than Oracle’s initial offer.

    “We continue to believe that Oracle's unsolicited proposal to acquire BEA at $17.00 per share significantly
  • BEA Systems has stuck to its guns, and let the 5pm Sunday deadline expire on Oracle's $17-per-share buyout offer.

    The enterprise software maker's board of directors had already said that Oracle's bid, which amounts to $6.7 billion, was too low. BEA instead
  • Microsoft has been plugging its Oslo vision for business process management and SOA, talking up its plans for “in the cloud” software services.

    Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, had two main sets of talking points at the Microsoft 2007 SOA and Business Process Conference.

    "The first is we're doubling down on ser...