Breakingviews | BEA/Oracle

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23 Oct 2007 20:00

Ticking or tricking

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The software group says it won’t raise its offer for its rival – and the bid expires on October 28. But there are reasons to suspect the offer won’t detonate. Oracle has done the same thing before and then relented. And it may want BEA enough to pay more than its current offer.

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