Oracle news from FierceCIO

In these chaotic economic times, it's important for an IT professional to do his job. It's also important to think about job security and to position yourself properly when your employer starts Read more...

> SAP hopes for 1000 SaaS customers by the end of the year. Article> Intel and Micron announce world's fastest NAND Flash. Read more...

The end is finally in sight in Oracle's dogged quest for BEA Systems. The pending deal calls for Oracle to pay $8.5 billion, a 14 percent increase over its first offer, which put the companies in a Read more...

What did CIOs do before the patch? It's certainly being used a lot to fix system security flaws these days. This week alone, Oracle released 26 fixes across its product line in its latest critical Read more...

> Mac tablet becomes a reality. Article> Oracle (finally) buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion. Read more...

> Rackable takes a gamble on Barcelona. Article> Toshiba shows off Cell-based laptop. Read more...

HP is well ahead of some of its rivals according to the latest Vendor Value Service report by Ziff Davis Enterprise Research. The study of midmarket CIOs found that HP was the vendor of choice among Read more...

BEA Systems turned down Oracle's bid for $6.7 billion late Sunday. BEA wanted a price of $21 per share or $8.3 billion, instead of the $17 per share offered. The company said Oracle's bid was too Read more...

Oracle wants to buy BEA for $6.7 Billion, but does BEA really want to sell at that price, just to be gobbled up by the third largest software company in the world? It's unclear, even though offering Read more...

In another major consolidation of the enterprise software industry, Germany's SAP took the opportunity this past weekend to close a deal to acquire Business Objects for $6.78 billion. The deal was Read more...