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Oracle to put BEA out of its misery
Oracle has put in a bid to purchase BEA for $6.7bn. BEA promptly turned down the offer, claiming that the firm was worth much more. But BEA president turn down the offer either.
Shareholders apparently see a bidding war around the corner. News of the bid caused a nearly 40 per cent jump in BEA stock. The firm is now valued at $7.4bn.
BEA hasn't been going anywhere for a while. It's application server is been reduced to a best of breed product that is operating in the shadow of IBM's Webshpere. BEA also has failed to formulate an answer to the rise of open source application servers, most notably Jboss.
BEA has done some cutting edge work in the Service Oriented Architecture space, but the market never really seemed to care.
In essence, BEA is a great technology company with poor marketing and sales organization. That should make for a perfect match with Oracle, which compensates whatever it is lacking in technology vision with strong sales and marketing.
BEA founder Alfred Chuang can start looking for a new job
October 12, 2007 at 10:43 PM | Permalink
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