FILED BY ORACLE CORPORATION
PURSUANT TO RULE 425 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AND DEEMED FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 14a-12
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
SUBJECT COMPANY: SIEBEL SYSTEMS, INC.
COMMISSION FILE NO. 0-20725
[The following was posted on an internal website of Oracle Corporation on September 20, 2005]
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Oracle to Buy Siebel
On September 12, 2005, Oracle announced an agreement to buy Siebel, the leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Oracle plans to bring together the complementary capabilities of both companies to provide customers with a complete set of information age applications.
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Oracle to Buy Siebel
September 19, 2005— On September 12, 2005, Oracle announced an agreement to buy Siebel, the leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Oracle plans to bring together the complementary capabilities of both companies to provide customers with a complete set of information age applications.
Customer investments in Oracle and Siebel CRM will be fully supported and protected. Oracle plans to continue to provide product enhancements and support to Oracle, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards CRM products, and customers are encouraged to continue to use, deploy, and upgrade to new versions of these products. In Oracle’s next generation CRM, customers will benefit from the best features of Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel products, with features of Siebel CRM becoming the centerpiece of Oracle Project Fusion CRM. After the transaction closes, Oracle customers will have the opportunity to access Siebel CRM best practices and a range of Siebel customer-facing modules that are complementary to Oracle’s offerings, including industry-tailored CRM, analytics, and customer data integration.
Please visit oracle.com/siebel to learn more about the transaction and what it will mean to customers and partners. If you don’t find answers to your questions here, please send an email to contact.oracle@oracle.com.
The transaction is expected to close in early 2006, subject to regulatory and other approvals. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.
The above is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into a contract.
The transaction is subject to regulatory and other approvals. In the E.U., this transaction will be subject to regulatory clearances and approvals and be conducted in accordance with the information and consultation requirements of applicable E.U. directives and their implementation in the individual member states.
Important Information
This document may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed business combination of Oracle and Siebel. In connection with the proposed transaction, a registration statement on Form S-4 will be filed with the SEC. STOCKHOLDERS OF SIEBEL ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, INCLUDING THE PROXY STATEMENT THAT WILL BE PART OF THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION. The final proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to
stockholders of Siebel. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov, from Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, California, Attention: Investor Relations, or from Siebel Systems, Inc., 2207 Bridgepointe Parkway, San Mateo, California 94404, Attention: Investor Relations.
Oracle, Siebel and their respective directors and executive officers and other members of management and employees may be deemed to participate in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transactions. Information regarding Oracle’s directors and executive officers is available in Oracle’s proxy statement for its 2005 annual meeting of shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on August 30, 2005, and information regarding Siebel’s directors and executive officers is available in Siebel’s proxy statement for its 2005 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 29, 2005. Additional information regarding the interests of such potential participants will be included in the proxy statement/prospectus and the other relevant documents filed with the SEC when they become available.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains certain forward-looking statements about Oracle and Siebel. When used in this document, the words “anticipates”, “may”, “can”, “believes”, “expects”, “projects”, “intends”, “likely”, similar expressions and any other statements that are not historical facts, in each case as they relate to Oracle and Siebel, the management of either such company or the transaction are intended to identify those assertions as forward-looking statements. In making any such statements, the person making them believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions. However, any such statement may be influenced by factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to be materially different from those projected or anticipated. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. There are various important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in any such forward-looking statements, many of which are beyond the control of Oracle and Siebel, including: the impact of general economic conditions in regions in which either such company currently does business, industry conditions, including competition, fluctuations in exchange rates and currency values, capital expenditure requirements, legislative or regulatory requirements, changes in the tax laws, interest rates and access to capital markets. The actual results or performance by Oracle or Siebel could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of Oracle or Siebel.