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Oracle-BEA Combination Is a Stronger SOA Alternative to Microsoft and .NET

It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been resisted by BEA, demanded by BEA's biggest stockholder, the dangerous Carl Icahn, and walked away from by Oracle. Oracle is going to pay $19.375 a share, less than the $21 that BEA wanted but more than the $17 it put on the table back in October. That works out to $8.5 billion, less the $1.3 billion that BEA has in the bank, as Oracle pointed out, for a grand total of $7.2 billion cash to be paid for by a combination of cash on hand and a short-term loan. Oracle has $8.4 billion in the bank so the financing's no problem. Its original bid valued BEA at roughly $6.66 billion.

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#6	My Sequal commented on the 11 Feb 2008 EnterpriseDB is a scam
#5	EnterpriseDB Rocks commented on the 11 Feb 2008 [Quote from MYSQLGURU: i bet you [EnterpriseDB], you dont have a sungle dollar in revenues] Really ? How much have you got Mr. MYSQL ? I'll happily take that bet !
#4	Annoyed Reader commented on the 30 Jan 2008 Nice grammar!!! Doesn't anybody know how to write? Don't editors care anymore? This is taken from the above article: Evidently him and his 13% stake in BEA played a role in persuading BEA to accept less than it wanted. HIM and HIS.....
#3	MYSQLGURU commented on the 17 Jan 2008 what are your number mr enterprisedb? what are you guys geeks or businessmen? this is a numbers game, i bet you, you dont have a sungle dollar in revenues take a hike there then
#2	bloatware commented on the 17 Jan 2008 "Even though MySQL is not the one-for-one Oracle replacement that, say, EnterpriseDB is," Its not a one for one performance replacement either. EnterpriseDB's performance and capability walk all over MYSQL in anything bigger than a couple of CPU's i.e. the Enterprise. Is Sun planning a move into the home web page market ?
#1	Oracle News Desk commented on the 16 Jan 2008 It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been resisted by BEA, demanded by BEA's biggest stockholder, the dangerous Carl Icahn, and walked away from by Oracle

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