From ZDNet News
=== Oracle buys BEA Systems ===
The clumsy courtship between Oracle and BEA Systems is over. Oracle said Wednesday that it will acquire BEA for $19.375 a share in cash.
The offer puts the value of BEA at roughly $8.5 billion.
On a conference call–where Oracle wasn’t taking questions–Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the deal will offer “greater value to our customers than any other offering in the marketplace.” He named IBM, Microsoft and open source rivals as the competition.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7610&tag=nl.e539
=== Sun acquires MySQL; Adds to its software stack
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Sun Microsystems is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open source database developer MySQL for $1 billion ($800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assumption of approximately $200 million in options).
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7611&tag=nl.e539
