Oracle offer will freeze new BEA business, analysts say

October 12, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Oracle Corp's $6.6 billion bid for BEA Systems Inc. will effectively freeze the latter's efforts to gain new customers and force Oracle to face questions on how it will handle overlapping middleware product lines, analysts said today. It is fascinating to see how the enterprise software market continues to consolidate and players such as BEA will have no other choice than to sell itself as the rumours will continue to persist otherwise. I think Cognos and other BI vendors that are not part of the market gorillas will face the same dilemma: Sell yourself or become stagnant non-growing organiztion.

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