Oracle Closes BEA Deal

摘要

Oracle corp.lastmonthofficiallycloseditsS8.5bil lion acquisition of middleware and tools vendor BEA Systems. Since the deal was announced earlier this year, industry analysts have been split on whether the consolidation of two key players in the Java infrastructure market willput the squeeze onMicrosoft's .NET-based middleware and service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies. " It's like having another IBM in the market. Microsoft competes heavily against IBM, and nowwith the combination of BEA and Oracle and the other acquisitions [Oracle} has made over the last couple of years, [BEA] in a sense gives Oracle a mini-IBM, if you will," says Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst with consultancy Interarbor Solutions LLC.