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    BEA Systems on Wednesday said it purchased privately held company Flashline to gain software for managing service-oriented architecture projects.

  • BEA still on the purchase trail

    BEA Systems is eyeing off further acquisitions as uptake of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) products slowly expands in the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Oracle to acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

    Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player.

  • BEA Systems acquires Fuego

    BEA Systems announced on Wednesday that it bought business process management software maker Fuego for US$87.5 million in cash.

  • IBM buys XML appliance maker

    IBM has acquired privately held DataPower, one of the first companies to develop specialised hardware for speeding up and securing XML network traffic.

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  • Will open source force a sea change in IT?

    Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?

  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

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