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As the proposed Oracle purchase of Siebel draws closer, and Oracle announce that they’re half way there to producing the first Fusion applications, it’s worth taking a look at what could perhaps be the jewel in the set of technology that Oracle has purchased, the business intelligence element of Siebel’s product line known as "Siebel [...]

Time to catch up on a few articles and bits of news. "Closer ties between the two firms will benefit their users, but only rivals would gain from a merger" argues Martin Banks in "Why Oracle would be mad to buy Sun". "The speculation follows a recent bout of serious "cuddling up" between Oracle chief [...]

Oracle to Support IBM WebSphere with Project Fusion Apps: "A week ago, as IBMers in the iSeries Division were preparing, like myself, to head down to Orlando, Fla., for the COMMON iSeries user group meeting, other IBMers from Software Group were heading out to Silicon Valley to do a legal dance in advance of the [...]

Oracle Agrees to Buy Siebel for $10.66 a Share : “REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 12-SEP-2005 Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced today that it agreed to buy Siebel Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: SEBL) for $10.66 per share. The offer is valued at approximately $5.85 billion, or $3.61 billion net of Siebel’s cash on hand of $2.24 billion. “In [...]

Oracle Preps Major BI Revamp This Summer : "Charles Phillips, president of Oracle Corp, said the company is planning to roll out significant upgrades to its business intelligence (BI) and online analytic processing (OLAP) tools later this summer. In an SG Securities Webcast recently, Phillips told analysts to expect "a major revamp of our product [...]