When I became the head of Hyperion Solutions in 1999, I didn't realize what a beast of a task I was up against.

The bride, 31, is a graphic designer for Hyperion Solutions, a software company in Stamford, Conn.

And as of March 2007 Oracle Corporation has acquired Hyperion Solutions.

Hyperion Solutions was formed from the merger of Hyperion Software (formerly IMRS) and Arbor Software in 1998.

Codd's paper resulted from a short consulting assignment which Codd undertook for former Arbor Software (later Hyperion Solutions, and in 2007 acquired by Oracle), as a sort of marketing coup.

The company's investments have now spanned generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods, and business models, including Omniture, Voltage Security, Mulesource, Wind River Systems and Hyperion Solutions.

Just this month, Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced plans to acquire Hyperion Solutions, a maker of software for tracking and reporting financial information, for $3.3 billion.

The bride, 35, and the bridegroom, 40, work at Hyperion Solutions, a software company.

Hyperion Solutions, a publisher of business analysis software, said it would lay off as many as 15 percent of its nearly 2,700 employees to reduce expenses.

Oracle is near a deal to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes software that allows corporations to analyze and track their performance, for more than $3.1 billion, according to people briefed on the deal.