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PeopleSoft lifts estimates again
News Edwards merger. Edwards -- the move that prompted Oracle to launch its hostile acquisition efforts. PeopleSoft executives said the better-than-expected third-quarter performance reflects customers' positive feelings about its recently finalised...
[October 6, 2003, 16:30]
Ellison: Don't believe PeopleSoft 'lies'
News PeopleSoft was outraged by Oracle's hostile bid because it came just a few days after PeopleSoft made a $1.7bn merger offer for J.D. Edwards, which would create the second-largest business-software company behind SAP.
[June 23, 2003, 13:16]
Ellison prioritises 'Project Fusion'
News Edwards customers is to keep the cost of their licences and support at or below the current levels they currently pay, as well as offer a published price list, Ellison said. Edwards 8.12 or Oracle 12.
[January 19, 2005, 8:20]
Siebel employees face nervous wait
News Stimson not only anticipated layoffs in the Siebel camp, but also among employees of the former PeopleSoft and JD Edwards companies, two enterprise applications vendors that Oracle acquired last year.
[February 9, 2006, 10:05]
PeopleSoft beats estimates
News Edwards, PeopleSoft reported fourth-quarter revenue of $685m (£378m), a 34 percent increase over the same quarter a year prior. Edwards, a rival that the company acquired last fall. Edwards, many of the cost-saving "synergies" are yet to come.
[January 30, 2004, 10:35]
US states home in on Oracle bid
News Edwards, which was followed up a few days later with a hostile bid from Oracle to acquire PeopleSoft. Edwards expect to hear by late Monday whether the Justice Department will issue a second request for information in their merger.
[July 11, 2003, 15:44]
Oracle-Siebel merger gets mixed reaction
News Earlier this year, Oracle closed its PeopleSoft merger, which began as a hostile takeover attempt and took almost two years to complete. Integration between PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel will be done out of the box over time," Lochhead said, noting...
[September 13, 2005, 8:50]
SAP: It's not all about innovation
News Edwards agreed to merge. First, rivals PeopleSoft and J.D. One of the big questions in the Oracle-DOJ trial was whether or not Microsoft plans to sell applications software to big global firms and compete head-to-head with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.
[July 12, 2004, 14:50]
Oracle 'remains committed' to PeopleSoft bid
News Oracle chief financial officer Jeff Henley accused PeopleSoft executives of obscuring PeopleSoft's financial performance to boost shareholder support for its merger with J.D. Oracle remains committed to acquiring PeopleSoft despite a number of...
[November 25, 2003, 8:45]
Oracle rests its case
News Edwards, the software company acquired by PeopleSoft last year. The presentation, "Implications of the PeopleSoft/JDE/Oracle merger and ISV consolidation on IBM," is dated 13 June, 2003, about a week after Oracle launched its hostile $7.7bn bid.
[July 2, 2004, 15:05]
Oracle's tricky encore
Leader Edwards in 2003 that persuaded him to join the hunt. Ellison knows this -- it was PeopleSoft's purchase of J.D. The mighty Oracle lays siege to plucky PeopleSoft, and at first is rebuffed. The PeopleSoft king is driven mad and summarily executed by...
[December 14, 2004, 12:05]
Business Objects buys rival
News Edwards. PeopleSoft moved closer Thursday to closing its transaction with J.D. Oracle continues to pursue an unfriendly buyout of PeopleSoft. They expect to save $25m next year as a result of the merger.
[July 21, 2003, 8:47]
Oracle again extends PeopleSoft bid
News Oracle pushed its tender offer deadline to midnight on 17 October following a presentation by PeopleSoft management to Wall Street analysts on Thursday detailing the anticipated financial benefits of its merger with J.D.
[September 5, 2003, 8:30]
Oracle plays the waiting game
News Oracle predicted that PeopleSoft would not be able to deliver on the promises of its merger with J.D. Meanwhile, PeopleSoft stock is soaring on investor enthusiasm for its merger with J.D. Edwards and that that would swing shareholders toward Oracle.
[November 19, 2003, 11:15]
Ellison 'determined' to buy PeopleSoft
News Edwards, PeopleSoft's shares closed at $18.82 on Tuesday. With Wall Street optimism building over PeopleSoft's merger with J.D. With competitors IBM and Microsoft also placing stakes in grid computing, Ellison said a main distinction of Oracle's...
[September 10, 2003, 8:35]
People power may derail Oracle's ambitions
News Disgruntled PeopleSoft customers could throw a wrench into Oracle's grand merger plans. Edwards for $1.7bn (£1.04bn). Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison sent shockwaves through the industry last month when he launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft...
[July 11, 2003, 8:42]
Deadline extended for selling PeopleSoft shares
News Edwards. As a result, Oracle postponed its 16 July hearing to address its lawsuit against PeopleSoft, in which it seeks to remove PeopleSoft's "poison pill" and halt its competitor's plans to acquire J.D.
[July 4, 2003, 8:06]
Making sense of SAP-Microsoft talks
News Edwards unit and sales to midsize companies. Edwards, as well as Lawson Software and other companies. Edwards. Last year, Oracle launched a hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, which had announced just days earlier that it would acquire J.D.
[July 7, 2004, 13:05]
PeopleSoft fails to meet revenue forecast
News Edwards, a deal made last year, and is facing a widespread decline in corporate software spending, they have said. PeopleSoft is grappling with its acquisition of software maker J.D. Part of the fallout from the trial was the public exhibition of...
[July 28, 2004, 9:35]
PeopleSoft 9 on the way
News Oracle plans to announce on Monday the release of PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, as the software titan seeks to solidify its promise to continue supporting and enhancing its former rival's products post merger.
[June 26, 2006, 9:45]
