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Oracle: We'll take J.D. Edwards too
News Oracle is so keen to get its hands on PeopleSoft that it will consider acquiring the company even if PeopleSoft completes its proposed merger with J.D. Answering questions at Oracle's AppsWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Chuck Phillips...
[June 25, 2003, 16:13]
Oracle gets its way, finally
News Oracle buys PeopleSoft PeopleSoft's board has agreed a $10bn takeover deal with Oracle after a year of resisting its advances. Oracle shaken by PeopleSoft customers' concerns Oracle has promised to do everything it can to keep PeopleSoft's current...
[December 13, 2004, 16:40]
Software rivals ready business tools
News PeopleSoft and Microsoft on Monday each introduced new applications designed to help businesses sell to and service customers, the companies said in separate announcements. As reported, PeopleSoft will ship a new release of its CRM (customer...
[December 10, 2002, 11:17]
Insights
Talkback As a PeopleSoft customer, our satisfaction was initially buoyed by the hopes that Fusion would indeed bring improvements to the table. Our hope is to improve upon the PeopleSoft support experience by moving more into Oracle's support sweet spot.
[November 28, 2006, 12:42]
Duopoly 'would mean price rises' - economist
News An economist testified on Friday that an Oracle takeover of PeopleSoft would allow the database powerhouse and SAP to unfairly dominate the market for business software. Oracle announced its attempt to buy an unwilling PeopleSoft a year ago.
[June 21, 2004, 9:15]
The chief has gone, but the battle continues
News Is PeopleSoft's founder and long-time chief executive back at the helm to accept Oracle's takeover bid, or to dig in for a long-term battle? Many analysts on Friday said the ousting of Craig Conway and the return of Dave Duffield is likely a...
[October 5, 2004, 11:20]
Oracle approaches antitrust deadline
News Oracle expects to receive word by Monday on whether federal antitrust regulators will let its hostile bid for PeopleSoft jump over regulatory hurdles. For Oracle, antitrust opposition, as well as PeopleSoft's "poison pill" anti-takeover measures...
[June 30, 2003, 7:53]
Oracle's tricky encore
Leader The mighty Oracle lays siege to plucky PeopleSoft, and at first is rebuffed. The PeopleSoft king is driven mad and summarily executed by the praetorian guard: at length, arms are laid down, terms for peace agreed and a great chest of gold exchanged...
[December 14, 2004, 12:05]
Conway's fall from grace softened by $20m golden parachute
News PeopleSoft could dole out as much as $20m in a severance package to its ousted chief executive, Craig Conway, a company spokesman said on Friday. Conway's departure may give PeopleSoft more latitude in negotiating a friendly merger with rival...
[October 4, 2004, 9:50]
Dial 'O' for Oracle
News Oracle's 18-month hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft came to an end on Friday evening with a single phone call. A PeopleSoft director, through an attorney, contacted Oracle with the lucky number: $26.50 per share, the price it would take to buy...
[December 14, 2004, 7:25]
Oracle looks past 'opportunistic' bid
News Oracle has promised that developing business applications will remain a top priority for the company -- with or without its acquisition of PeopleSoft. Our applications business was never contingent on getting PeopleSoft," Charles Phillips, Oracle...
[January 28, 2004, 8:40]
Oracle witness: Microsoft 'will compete' with SAP
News It's a question of when, not if, Microsoft will compete with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft in the market for business applications, an Accenture executive testified on Wednesday at the Oracle antitrust trial.
[June 17, 2004, 11:30]
EC delays Oracle ruling till June
News European antitrust regulators aren't expected make a final decision on Oracle's $9.4bn takeover bid for PeopleSoft until at least mid-June. The Department of Justice filed suit to try to block Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft.
[May 5, 2004, 17:10]
Apple Computer Case Study: University of Wisconsin - Madison
White Papers A few years later, PeopleSoft software was adopted as an alternative to the university's legacy student records system. Since the PeopleSoft application lacked support for the Mac OS at the time, students who owned a Mac were unable to access their...
[February 9, 2006, 23:00]
Oracle updates J.D. Edwards compliance tools
News Edwards compliance software it absorbed via its buyout of PeopleSoft. Edwards products when it finalised its purchase of rival PeopleSoft in early 2005. PeopleSoft had acquired J.D. On Wednesday Oracle launched a new set of upgrades for the J.D.
[June 17, 2005, 11:30]
Searching for the next Salesforce
News He was the head of PeopleSoft's $1bn (£0.55bn) services business until Oracle took over the company earlier this year. These guys are figuring out where there's holes -- the stuff that PeopleSoft doesn't do so well -- and going after that," Coleman...
[June 27, 2005, 13:00]
SAP boosts British presence
News SAP took a fresh jab at Oracle on Monday with an expanded plan to lure away customers Oracle gained in its acquisition of PeopleSoft. SAP said it will open offices in Reading, as well as Amsterdam and Singapore, to supply software maintenance and...
[April 26, 2005, 10:00]
Oracle unveils global business suite
News Oracle announced on Wednesday the general release of E-Business Suite Release 12, a financial-information suite designed for global deployment, and unveiled postmerger applications for users of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel products.
[February 1, 2007, 8:45]
Oracle steps up small-business attack
News While the software company's legal team battles a high-profile antitrust suit over its plan to buy PeopleSoft, its marketing group has quietly stepped up an effort to sell applications software to small businesses in the US, according to people...
[June 15, 2004, 14:45]
Salesforce.com puts Siebel in CRM crosshairs
News Application service provider Salesforce.com will introduce new customer-relationship software next week that it says will put it in the same league as market leaders Siebel Systems, Oracle and PeopleSoft.
[February 15, 2002, 10:32]
