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SoftwareAG: 'We're not up for sale'

SoftwareAG acquiring IDS Scheer: deal details All cash offer €477 million (net of IDS Scheer cash is €387 million) Debt to be repaid in 2-3 years Contracted shares today 48% Tender process for remainder expected to start August and close...

Tags: IDS Scheer, SAP AG, SoftwareAG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-14

What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?

A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-06

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News to know: Intel; Oracle, Microsoft patches; Azure; Mourning a dead laptop

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Intel shines: Earnings, revenue, margins well above estimates; Outlook better Andrew Nusca: PC sales to see biggest drop...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Windows Mobile Customizability, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Software AG swoops on IDS Scheer

Just goes to show how much I know. Last week I was saying that SoftwareAG would be a good fit for SAP and today, SoftwareAG swoops on IDS Scheer. From the wires: On 13 July 2009, SAG Beteiligungs GmbH (currently still registered under the corporate...

Tags: IDS Scheer, Software AG, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Sales, Finance, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

SOA: it's only rocket science

What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet,  Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Serena Software brings business mashups to mainframe application release process

Serena Software brings business mashups to mainframe application release processA Broadening of Perspectives – It's a Good ThingAs a fellow blogger for Software AG's Modernized Insights (http://blog.softwareag.com/?cat=7), it's great to run across news and articles that showcase a broadening of perspectives when it comes to the mainframe. While there's...

Tags: Mainframes, Case-in-point, mainframe, Serena Software Inc., Software AG

Discussion threads 2008-08-02