Oracle In Talks To Buy Siebel, Reports ZDNet (And Other Oracle News)

Oracle in talks to buy Siebel : "Oracle is in talks to buy Siebel Systems for a price tag that could reach $5 Billion The Daily Deal reports. The high-level discussions between the two companies have been confirmed by insiders and industry analysts, but are preliminary and could still break down, according to the news organization."

Fusion: Oracle s Websphere And More : "Oracle has a lot of middleware products, now they will all have a common brand name, just as IBM has its Websphere brand. Oracle Fusion Middleware is a newly created brand for Oracle s family of middleware products, which includes Oracle Application Server, Oracle Developer Suite, and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, among others. Fusion provides a standards-based approach for deploying SOAs. Using Web services, an Enterprise Service Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to implement SOAs, customers can integrate applications and automate business processes."

SAP seals Microsoft deal to fight Oracle : "SAP has sealed an alliance with Microsoft to co-develop products in a move that industry analysts have interpreted as a thinly disguised attack on Oracle. The deal to develop a product set codenamed Mendocino, that will extend SAP business processes into Microsoft's Office applications, was made public at SAP's Sapphire user conference in Copenhagen yesterday. The joint development is due to be available through both Microsoft and SAP in the fourth quarter of 2005. David Bradshaw, principal analyst and practice leader for CRM at Ovum, said: 'There were two shots here at Oracle, which is not only SAP's arch competitor in business applications but which, ironically, is the most popular database for running SAP."

Mendocino: The Reason Microsoft Should Buy Siebel : "Siebel's strengths can compliment the shortcomings of Microsoft and assist in further building out the enterprise software vision they have. Microsoft needs to give Siebel a wake-up call, and unlike Larry Ellison of Oracle saying in 2004 he would buy Siebel then split it up into three companies, Microsoft has much more to offer Mr. Siebel -- fulfillment of his original vision of CRM."