Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low.
Oracle and BEA Systems have traded salvos over the series of events that led to Oracle's bid for the company.
In a move designed to counter Microsoft's growing database influence, Oracle has quietly cut software prices on some lower-end servers using multicore processors.
The Oracle manager who oversaw the integration of the Asia-Pacific operations of acquisition targets Siebel and PeopleSoft into the software heavyweight has been promoted.
Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems received mixed reviews on Monday from analysts, customers and partners, but there were few concerns about the companies' ability to integrate.
A single phone call on Friday evening brought the long-running Oracle-PeopleSoft fight to a close, Oracle President Chuck Phillips revealed.
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