BEA Systems News

"Counterarguments arose that there would always be a need for value-added commercial software and that even commercial software vendors benefit from technologies they can get via open source.

Oracle has moved into a large office tower in downtown San Jose around the corner from the convention center, giving the software giant its first presence in the city's urban core.

Spreecast is a social video platform that lets people broadcast together, has raised $4 million in seed funding from Frank Biondi, former CEO of Viacom; Gordon Crawford, media and technology investor at The Capital Research Group and Edward Scott, Jr., founder of BEA Systems.