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As part of yesterday’s release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January 2006) to Software AG’s existing Centrasite design-time governance capabilities (which were bolstered by the acquisition [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by adminRead this new report. I know we’re not the quickest off the mark, but we wanted to get the whole team working together to author something comprehensive, and with travel and so on, that took a few days. We’ll admit to being pessimistic about BEA’s prognosis going into the Oracle acquisition, but Oracle’s early communications [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by adminUncategorized
As someone who wrote a little on the potential acquisition of BEA by Oracle, I’ve been in a quandary since the news of the acquisition broke: frankly, I felt that I needed to write something – but there was already so much other commentary out there (much of it saying the same thing), I didn’t [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by adminUncategorized
Most readers will by now be familiar with the recent sparring between Oracle and BEA (just see our del.icio.us links over the past days to get an update if you’re not up to speed). There’s been plenty said about this already of course, but I thought it would be fun to look past the “industry [...]
Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 by adminOracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by adminOur second SOA vendor interview was with BEA’s Martin Percival yesterday. Again we followed our standard format – and in the resulting 34’30″ podcast we get into discussing: BEA’s experience of delivering “information as a service” projects within SOA initiatives How SOA is about more than just WS-* technology BEA’s transition from a pure Java [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 by adminUncategorized
BEA today announced a stategic partnership with CA, which will see the latter’s access and identity management solutions (SiteMinder and Identity Manager) integrated with the former’s WebLogic and AquaLogic application and service infrastructure platforms. I agree completely with Wai Wong’s (BEA’s executive vice president of products) statement in the press release that Identity and Access [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 by admin
