Tags: acquisition, business objects

RSS feed

News (7)

SAP puts focus on Business Objects

SAP has no plans to join Oracle and get involved in the megamerger game. Read more »

SAP to acquire Business Objects for $7bn

SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than US$6.8 billion. Read more »

Business Objects to buy SRC Software

Business Objects plans to acquire privately held SRC Software for about US$100 million in cash. Read more »

IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion

IBM yesterday announced plans to buy business intelligence software company Cognos in a US$5 billion all-cash transaction. Read more »

BEA sets buyout price at $21 a share

BEA Systems said on Thursday that it's willing to sit at the negotiating table with any potential buyers -- if they're open to a price of US$21 a share to start acquisition talks. Read more »

BEA rejects US$6.66bn bid from Oracle

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. Read more »

A software comeback?

Do IBM's strong software sales point to brighter days in the enterprise software business? Yes--but only in some select areas, said analysts. Read more »

Blog (1)

In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?

[blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »

Log in

News and features

Latest
Popular
Features
Most Discussed

Blogs

The festive season not so festive

This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
Tools for the Semantic Web

This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »

-- posted by Lana Kovacevic
Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision

A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »

-- posted by Brendon Chase

Videos

Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP

2008/10/01 13:30:44

Play the video
Google feeling the pinch?

2008/12/03 14:27:04

Play the video
How to Reset Windows passwords

2008/10/01 14:31:09

Play the video

What's on?

Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder

On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.