Oracle hopes its customers will combine the company's latest On Demand CRM solution with social networking sites to close more deals. It also announced support for the BlackBerry and iPhone.
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Software maker Oracle said on Monday it will acquire rival Siebel Systems in a deal worth US$5.8 billion, marking the second major competitor the company has targeted since mid-2004.
Oracle will acquire Siebel Systems for US$5.8 billion. The long-predicted buyout will have interesting ramifications on the Australian market.
Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.
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At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison answers questions from attendees about a wide range of topics, such as virtualisation, competition in the applications market, and his early years working at Oracle.
SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde.
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