Oracle's $6.7 Billion Bid for BEA Turned Down 61
andy1307 writes to tell us that according to the Mercury News, Oracle has made an unsolicited bid to buy BEA Systems for about $6.7 billion. BEA confirmed that it rejected the $17 a share bid as too low. "BEA told Phillips that its board of directors believes BEA 'is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price indicated in your letter.' Oracle's aggressive bid may be an attempt to pre-empt an acquisition by others, Finley said. Those named in the past as potential suitors include IBM, the German software company SAP AG and Hewlett-Packard. Trip Chowdhry of Global Equity Research said he expects a counterbid from SAP, which he said needs BEA to survive. 'If they don't get BEA, probably in two years SAP will be on the block to sell itself,' Chowdhry predicted. Oracle needs to keep BEA out of competitors' hands, he said. Chowdhry said the offer currently 'is not right. Probably at $21 the deal will get done.'"
Re:They should have taken it (Score:3, Informative)
the stack traces JRockit produces are formatted differently from those of Sun's JVM (which prevents my IDE from turning them into clickable hotlinks that take me to the lines of offending code). FSM knows why they made them different.
Since about two years back our stack traces look identical to SUN's. I'm at home right now and can't give you a specific release for that change. The difference was that old versions of JRockit used to show full method signatures rather than just method names in stack traces. We reverted to doing what SUN's doing because of people having the exact issues you're having. Which JRockit version (do java -version) are you using?
Oh and the line numbers in your stack trace will be wrong unless you turn off optimization - which is the the whole point of using JRockit.
If you have a repro for this, please post it here [bea.com]. Since you're running WLS you probably have a support contract for JRockit, in which case you should open a support case. Unless we know about the problem we cannot fix it :-(.
(It's supposed to be faster than Sun's JVM - I've never seen proof).
As always it's not provable for the general case as it depends on what you're doing. Two references that do have numbers for JRockit being generally faster than SUN's JVM are here [bea.com] and here [stefankrause.net], but those numbers may or may not be applicable to your app.
HTH, have fun :-).