The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of US$26 a share -- double the original forecasts.
SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than US$6.8 billion.
Oracle has warned BEA Systems that its US$6.7 billion buyout offer will expire on Sunday, unless the middleware company agrees to put its offer before shareholders for a vote.
SAP has no plans to join Oracle and get involved in the megamerger game.
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Welcome to San Francisco, California, for Oracle's takeover of a different sort of entity; a city.
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
Steve Jobs' backflip on a key aspect of the iPhone stood out from a normal day -- broadband furore, antagonistic marketing, personal attacks and government inaction -- in the world of Australia's telecoms market.
How many vendors do you usually evaluate when trying to determine the best solution for a contract? Ten? Twenty? How about 100?
With Melbourne resuming its rightful place as Sydney's slightly embarrassing provincial neighbour after the Commonwealth Games, the scene is now set for an event of real significance.
Michael Dell addresses attendees at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco.
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Despite a few initial hiccups, Australia's largest energy operator and administrator has successfully deployed Oracle's 9i application server, and is already reaping the rewards.
The idea of getting a robust, scalable operating system for free hasn't clicked with many enterprises -- until now.
Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.
In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...
Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle's Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server.
Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale May 21 with a price of US$75.95 in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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