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    Capping his company's four-week trial against the Justice Department, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's masterful testimony on Thursday convincingly laid out the legal case for why Oracle should be allowed to be a cold-hearted acquirer.

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    Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its US$7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial here on Monday in the US.

  • IBM looms large in life sciences quest

    In early 2000, IBM research executives Carol Kovac and Jeff Augen were kicking around the notion of how the company could play a larger role in the fast-growing life sciences arena.

  • Trying to turn the page at CA

    The resignation of Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday as chief executive of Computer Associates International opens a new chapter for the troubled software maker.

  • Tech mergers kick off new year

    Several technology companies announced acquisitions to strengthen their market positions at the start of the New Year, including communications-chip maker Agere Systems and identity management firm Netegrity.

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  • Ellison's defining moment

    Could Larry Ellison's court performance have clinched Oracle's bid to buy PeopleSoft?

  • Trying to turn the page at CA

    Wednesday's resignation of Sanjay Kumar as chief executive of Computer Associates opens a new chapter for the troubled software maker. But can the new CA shake its controversial past?

  • Can Oracle survive Larry Ellison?

    COMMENTARY -- In December 1998, Larry Ellison was steering his maxi-yacht, Sayonara, when it was caught in a fierce, unexpected storm. Sayonara would win the Sydney-to-Hobart race off the coast of Australia that year, but not with Ellison at the helm.

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