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Oracle-BEA takeover comes to a close

Oracle announced Tuesday it completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems, bringing to a close a contentious buyout effort that began last spring. Read more »

Proprietary vendors lose $60bn to open source

Open-source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by US$60 billion a year, according to research. Read more »

Oracle-BEA merger gets the green light

Oracle on Wednesday received a green light from regulators to move forward on its merger plans with BEA Systems. Read more »

What's Microsoft's next move in fight for Yahoo?

After a resounding "no" on its unsolicited buyout offer for Yahoo, Redmond will either up the ante or ready a one-two punch. Read more »

Questions remain after Oracle's BEA takeover

Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems was a logical move by the software giant but it remains unclear exactly what it will mean for users in terms of product roadmap and transition licensing. Read more »

BEA to take on Asia thanks to Oracle

Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts. Read more »

Oracle to acquire BEA Systems for $8.5 billion

Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player. Read more »

Oracle: Our $6.7bn BEA offer was too high

If Oracle renews its bid for rival BEA Systems, it would come in at a price below its initial offer of US$17 a share, the company told analysts Wednesday. Read more »

BEA under pressure to get financials in order

BEA must get its financial restatements up to date if it hopes to keep its biggest shareholder from taking control of a possible buyout, legal experts say Read more »

Oracle pulls buyout offer for BEA Systems

Oracle withdraws its $6.7 billion buyout bid for BEA Systems, after the middleware maker refuses to entertain its $17 a share bid. Read more »

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J2EE Servers Stink

Our project is behind schedule. My other projects are now way behind schedule. And it's all because of the complexity and low quality of J2EE servers. Read more »

Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss is one step toward what many consider inevitable: the creation of open source companies that rival the clout of entrenched software-providers. Read more »

VMware's US$200,000 virtualisation challenge

Fancy coding virtual appliances? Then you might be in with a chance... Read more »

Scripting XML processing using E4X

You can write a general-purpose XML processor in Java, then tailor it to specific XML dialect using ECMAScript. We'll show you how. Read more »

Beans Means XML

You can read and manipulate XML documents in Java much easier by using XmlBeans. We show you how to get started. Read more »

Deliver RSS content with JSP and JavaScript

You can generate RSS feeds for your JSP-based web site easily. We'll show you how. Read more »

SOA do's and don'ts

SOA is commonly acknowledged as the most cost-effective and efficient way to integrate disparate information systems together. Here are some tips from Builder AU to get you started. Read more »

Open source and the middleware market

Gartner predicts that licence revenues for infrastructure software will start declining from 2006 due to the impact of open source on the market's business models. We look at how the market is changing. Read more »

A new aspect to programming?

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is an approach that has emerged out of object-oriented programming. Is it really an evolutionary methodology that has attracted plenty of hype, and is it something we've tried before? Read more »

Do you want source with that database?

Is Microsoft slowly becoming a more open source company? Read more »

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Dr. Evil couldn't have said it better

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When the price for a company is $1 billion, it's hard not to recall Austin Powers' Dr Evil. Read more »

Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »

Microsoft's Supermarket Sweep

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Attention entrepreneurial developers: Steve Ballmer wants to pay you somewhere between $50 million and $1 billion for your company. Read more »

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    When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »

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    Hands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce. Read more »

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    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »

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