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Taleo Acquired By Oracle For $1.9 Billion
By Chris Crum · February 9, 2012

Oracle and cloud-based talent management company Taleo announced today that Oracle is buying Taleo for about $1.9 billion. Oracle says that with Taelo, it intends to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their HR operations and employee …

RightNow Technologies to be Acquired by Oracle for $1.5 Billion
By Chris Crum · October 24, 2011

Oracle announced it will be acquiring RightNow Technologies, a company that provides cloud-based customer service. The deal is for about $1.5 billion. The transaction has already been unanimously approved by Oracle’s board, though still subject to regulatory approvals. It’s expected …

Google Calls Microsoft, Apple Patent Strategy Anti-Competitive [Updated]
By Chris Crum · August 4, 2011 · 2

Google ran an interesting post from its Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond on the Official Google Blog today called “When Patents Attack Android.” It tells a tale of two tech giants teaming up to impede the …

Oracle Turns OpenOffice Into A Community-Based Project
By Chris Richardson · April 15, 2011 · 1

The longtime, free alternative to Microsoft Office will be changing hands in regards to development and supervision as Oracle announced their intentions to turn OpenOffice into a community-based, open source project. Not only that, but they also plan on discontinuing …

Verdict: SAP to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion
By Chris Crum · November 24, 2010 · 1

Oracle is reportedly being awarded $1.3 Billion from SAP, as the result of a jury’s verdict following an 11-day trial. The case dates back to 2007 when Orcale sued SAP for illegal downloading of its software for resale to Oracle customers, by TommorowNow, a company SAP acquired in 2005.

Oracle Acquiring E-Commerce Company ATG for $1 Billion
By Chris Crum · November 2, 2010

Oracle announced today that it’s buying e-commerce software company Art Technology Group (ATG) for about $1 billion.

Google Seeks Dismissal Of Oracle Suit
By Doug Caverly · October 5, 2010

It’s official: Oracle’s accusations of patent infringement did not go over well at the Googleplex. This week, Google responded to Oracle’s lawsuit by asking for the suit to be dismissed and Oracle’s patents declared invalid. Google would like some money, too.

Oracle and HP Make Up
By Chris Crum · September 20, 2010

Update 3: The companies have apparently resolved their differences and will continue their partnership. Bloomberg BusinessWeek has details.

Update 2: Oracle has responded with the following statement:

Google Exits Conference Due To Oracle Suit
By Doug Caverly · August 27, 2010

Organizers of the JavaOne and Oracle Develop conference may be fielding more than a few emails and phone calls about refunds this afternoon. Google, which was supposed to have a significant presence at the event, backed out today due to the lawsuit Oracle brought against it.

Google’s Reponse to the Oracle Suit
By Chris Crum · August 16, 2010 · 2

As you may have read, Google is being sued by Oracle, who claims Google is infringing on several patents it holds, related to Java. These patents came to Oracle through its recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

"In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property," said Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman. "This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement."

Android Has a New Fight, This Time with Oracle
By Chris Crum · August 13, 2010

Google has a new legal battle on its hands, and this time it’s over Android. Oracle has filed a complaint against Google, alleging that Google is infringing upon several patents it holds, related to Java.

The properties in question would be those Oracle received in its Sun Microsystems acquisition earlier this year.

Oracle’s Sun Microsystems Acquisition Approved by EU
By Chris Crum · January 21, 2010 · 1

Update: The European Commission has reportedly approved Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Now the deal only needs approval from Chinese and Russian regulators.

Original Article: Oracle is acquiring Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in cash at a rate of $9.50 per share in cash.

Sun Losing $100 Million a Month as Oracle Waits
By Chris Crum · September 22, 2009

Sun Microsystems is losing about $100 million a month according to Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, the company that’s set to acquire Sun. Oracle is waiting to get clearance from European regulators before the deal can go through and Oracle can step in and try to put an end to this loss.

Oracle Releases Social CRM Product
By Doug Caverly · March 12, 2008 · 2

In its attempt to even approach Salesforce.com in the CRM market, Oracle may have made an important leap. With its latest launch – Oracle CRM on Demand Release 15 – the company has integrated some social networking capabilities.

MySQL and the Google MacGyver Connection
By Savio Rodrigues · January 22, 2008

A reader commented that MySQL isn’t “enterprise ready”, to which another reader wrote:

“I hate it when snobby DBAs or managers scoff at MySQL as if it isn’t ready to play with the big boys. Google called, they’d like to loan you a clue.”

Oracle’s Hand In Sun’s MySQL Buy
By WebProNews Staff · January 22, 2008 · 5

Tech industry pundit John Dvorak thinks Larry Ellison had a shadowy hand in the billion dollar deal that brought MySQL to Sun.

BEA & Oracle Customers Should Expect Major Shifts
By Manoj Jasra · January 17, 2008

CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, has found that some of the largest enterprise portal vendors are experiencing the most change right now, and therefore, choices that appear conservative to customers might actually carry significant near-term risks.

BEA and Oracle customers in particular should expect to see major shifts pending yesterday’s acquisition, as four, overlapping enterprise portal products will compete for attention under Larry Ellison.

Software Industry Continues to Consolidate
By Savio Rodrigues · January 16, 2008

As Zack reported, Sun is buying MySQL for ~$800M plus $200M in options. Interestingly, the MySQL acquisition represents 8% of Sun’s current market cap (~$13 Bil). While I’m happy for the MySQL team, my views on Sun’s OSS “strategy” are mixed at best.

Oracle Closes BEA Deal For $8.5 Billion
By WebProNews Staff · January 16, 2008

The valuation comes as Oracle and BEA agree on terms that will have Oracle pay $19.375 per share in cash for outstanding shares in the web application company.

NetSuite Optimistic About Its IPO
By Doug Caverly · December 18, 2007

Three bucks isn’t much, but to look at it another way, it’s about 19 percent of sixteen dollars. So we’re at least mildly impressed that NetSuite, a business software maker, has been able to raise the expected price range of its IPO by that much.

BEA Flips Off Oracle Offer
By WebProNews Staff · October 12, 2007

A 25 percent premium for BEA in an all-cash offer from Oracle elicited a mild chuckle from BEA’s VP of business planning and development, William Klein.

Oracle and Web Conferencing
By Ken Molay · October 4, 2007

An article by Paul Krill in InfoWorld caught my eye. It covers a web conference given by Oracle the otther day in which company representatives made lots of references to enterprise collaboration under the term Enterprise 2.0 (following on from the current trend of overusing the phrase "Web 2.0").

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