Business software maker BEA Systems Inc. on Thursday put itself up for auction.
It said it would need at least $21 per share to get competitor Oracle Corp., which earlier this month tried to buy BEA for $17 per share, to raise its current bid.
Oracle made an unsolicited bid for BEA in October that BEA turned down for being too low. It covets BEA’s middleware computer coding.
BEA Systems Inc. www.bea.com
Oracle Corp. www.oracle.com
