Peter Cooper-Ellis joins SpringSource
SpringSource has announced that Peter Cooper-Ellis is now joining the company to head the development and product management of SpringSource Application Platform.
He was previously the head of the BEA Systems WebLogic engineering team.
He was also one of the many executives who were not offered a job by Oracle after they acquired BEA [...]

Oracle completes acquisition of BEA Systems
Oracle has announced that they have now completed the acquisition of their old rival BEA Systems.
The company has now received approval from the European Union regulatory bodies for this deal.
This is Oracle’s largest acquisition ever since they overtook the operations of PeopleSoft 3 years ago.
They have been on an [...]

BEA Systems still looking for a possible buyer
BEA Systems might have rejected the offer from Oracle but they are still looking for a possible buyer.
The company said in a statement that they are still holding out for a $21 a share takeover offer.
Oracle had offered them a $17 a share deal which they rejected. [...]

Oracle rejects $8.2 billion acquisition demand from BEA Systems
Oracle Corp has announced that they are rejecting the offer made by BEA Systems to acquire them for a price tag of USD 8.2 billion.
Oracle has been interested in acquiring BEA but this price was rejected as they believed that the price was impossibly high for the [...]

Oracle offers an acquisition deal to BEA Systems
Oracle has announced an offer to buy rival company BEA Systems for a price of around USD 6.7 Billion.
This is their latest acquisition bid as they continue to expand their product portfolio to challenge SAP and IBM in the service industry market.
BEA Systems specializes in making middleware applications [...]