Video: BEA co-founder Bill Coleman on the prospect of an Oracle acquisition
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Last week I spoke with Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of Cassatt Corp., a startup that for the past couple of years has been trying to cash in on all the buzz about utility computing, and is now doing its best to ride the green computing wave. We’ll get to all that in a later post, but first things first.
Coleman is best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, the company that Oracle in October set out to acquire, only to be shot down by BEA’s board. BEA wants $21 a share, and so far Oracle has been unwilling to go higher than $17. Still, analysts are saying a deal could well happen.
It’s clear that Coleman has a lot of interest in what’s going on over there (after all, Bill is the “B” in BEA), partly because he’s still a large BEA shareholder. Here’s a clip from my interview with him, in which he discussed the prospect of an Oracle acquisition of his former company.
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