SAP France, SAP and Business Objects announced that SAP France's all-cash tender offers for Business Objects securities were successful. As a result of the offer in France, which closed on January 10, 2008, and the offer in the United States, which closed January 15, 2008. SAP France will hold 87.18% of the share capital and total voting rights of Business Objects, or 82.08% on a fully diluted basis taking into account all outstanding ORNANEs (as defined below), warrants and stock options. This result satisfies the offers' minimum tender condition of 50.01% of the total voting rights of Business Objects on a fully diluted basis.

Oracle and BEA Systems announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion.

Sun Microsystems To Acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration.

Network Solutions is under fire this week for using a questionable tactic that forces users to register domains with them. As of Tuesday, Network Solutions automatically reserves for four days any domain name that is the subject of a search on its site, preventing users from buying it anywhere else.

Selltis launched the next version of the company's namesake CRM solution, Selltis Sales 5.0, which is delivered via a hosted, software as a service (SaaS) business model.

Infor announced the latest version of its outbound marketing solution, Infor CRM Epiphany Outbound Marketing 7.1, with retail-specific enhancements.

NICE announced that Conseco has expanded its NICE environment with NICE SmartCenter to be deployed in US and offshore locations, across four contact centers.

Infogain announced the completion of its acquisition of Spider Systems, Pune, India.

The Thomson Corporation has established a presence in the emerging business-to-business social networking space, announcing the addition of Boston-based Contact Networks, and its enterprise relationship management (ERM) product, ContactNet, to its portfolio of business intelligence and relationship management services for legal and other professional markets.

Astute Solutions announced expanding the RealDialog product family with the launch of RealDialog Agent Assist. The solution enables contact center agents to deliver consistent, accurate, and personalized responses.