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PeopleSoft to persist with money-back guarantee
News Oracle's tender offer, which it has extended six times, is set to expire on 13 February. PeopleSoft will continue a controversial money-back guarantee programme up to March 31, or until Oracle drops its $7.3bn (£3.95bn) bid for the company.
[January 14, 2004, 9:50]
Prudential may axe 520 IT jobs
News Prudential said it had identified the necessary criteria to make the cuts, and that it would test both competitors and its own business units by putting contracts out to tender. Financial services group Prudential may cut more than 500 UK-based IT...
[March 19, 2007, 16:25]
BBC Internet services labelled anti-competitive
News We think BBC brands like this should be put out to tender if they are to become commercial property," he said. The BBC's Internet business was labelled "anti-competitive" by media association BIPA (British Internet Publishers' Association) Wednesday.
[November 24, 1999, 14:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Was that project put out to tender? Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend. Norway is an odd place - friendly, tidy, smug, rather like Switzerland in many ways - but it does a fabulous sunset.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Was that project put out to tender? Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend. Norway is an odd place - friendly, tidy, smug, rather like Switzerland in many ways - but it does a fabulous sunset.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News It will be interesting to see whether this will have an impact on the current re-tender for the Sprint framework, being run by Buying Solutions. HM Revenue & Customs says its newly revised Aspire contract with Capgemini will save £110m a year...
[November 2, 2009, 9:01]
PeopleSoft extends refund programme
News PeopleSoft introduced the money-back guarantee after Oracle launched its tender offer in June, and it also recently extended the plan's terms. PeopleSoft disclosed on Wednesday that it will extend its controversial customer refund programme until...
[November 20, 2003, 10:30]
Oracle's bid opposed by Justice Dept
News It also extended the tender offer for PeopleSoft shares to 25 June from 12 March. US Department of Justice officials on Thursday filed a lawsuit to block Oracle's hostile $9.4bn (£5.06bn) takeover bid for PeopleSoft, but Oracle vowed to challenge...
[February 27, 2004, 11:25]
Moon satellite mission moves closer to blast-off
News A tender process for the feasibility study contract will run until March 2009. A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the moon that could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other has inched a...
[December 8, 2008, 8:38]
ITTs are wonderful, discuss.
Blog You know, Invitations to Tender, Requests For Proposal, Requests For Information etc. Hello, so welcome to my Blog. And this is my first sojourn into the world of Blogs so forgive me if it all goes horribly wrong .
[November 4, 2008, 16:41]
PeopleSoft makes integration easier
News PeopleSoft this week rejected a revised $9.4bn tender offer. PeopleSoft has released a set of updated performance tuning and data integration tools, which are the fruits of an ongoing effort to reduce the cost of maintaining its application software.
[February 11, 2004, 11:05]
Digital Britain recommends 'G Cloud' for gov't IT
News It recommends that the CIO Council should provide a simplified, fast track process for procurement — consistent with EU rules — initially focused on a small number of areas for tender. The newly published Digital Britain report has advocated that...
[June 17, 2009, 8:37]
Gov't writes off £24m on failed IT project
News Asked whether there will be a replacement system for phase two, the Cabinet Office spokesman said work is underway on providing core parts of it, but added that there are currently no plans to go back out to tender.
[July 20, 2009, 8:29]
Government web content to join archive
News Thomas said the organisation is looking for a private sector partner, and will start a tender process by the end of this year with plans to complete it by the end of 2009. The National Archives will start copying and making available online all...
[August 20, 2008, 10:31]
MBAs scout for scarce tech jobs
News Before entering school, many students rode the dot-com gravy train to its final stop, launching companies and holding vice president positions at the tender age of 25 or younger before the money ran out.
[January 9, 2003, 15:18]
ID card spending doubles to £56m
News However, over the life of this plan, contracts with service providers will be subject to re-tender before planned contract expiry dates. The new Identity and Passport Service will spend £56m on setting up the controversial ID cards project this year.
[April 25, 2006, 9:30]
Compaq boosts Net offering with Zip2 acquisition
News In a separate announcement, Compaq said today that it has successfully completed its $220 million tender offer for Shopping.com, and plans to close the merger next month. Zip2, a privately held US company, will become an operating division of the...
[February 17, 1999, 11:03]
Microsoft emphasises security problems
News The open-source versus proprietary software debate has also received recent play at state level, with the New South Wales government releasing a tender for a panel of suppliers of Linux solutions to agencies.
[November 24, 2004, 10:45]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog Now, you know those wildlife TV programmes where a lioness crouches in the long grass, waiting for a straggler to detach itself from the herd and get distracted by a particularly tender patch of grass…
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Oracle wants to meet PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft spokeswoman Dee Anna McPherson declined to comment on management's reaction to Ellison's letter, adding that "our board of directors will review the tender offer and determine all the appropriate actions moving forward.
[June 10, 2003, 13:15]
