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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. The business software maker fired Conway on Friday, saying the board of directors no longer felt...
[October 4, 2004, 9:50]
Conway to get $16m from PeopleSoft
News Craig Conway, PeopleSoft's former CEO, has received a severance package in excess of $16m, after being fired earlier this month from the embattled software company. Conway, who fought a hostile takeover battle with Oracle for 15 months, was...
[October 19, 2004, 17:10]
Conway to Ellison: It's over
News Even without Ellison breathing down his neck, Conway still faces a panoply of complicated staff integration and product marketing issues. But for PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway, fending off the hostile takeover launched by his former...
[August 28, 2003, 15:50]
Conway v Ellison: It's over
Talkback Hello Charles. Remember the pro-SCOG comments you wrote and spoke some time back? How do those hold up now that SCOG attorneys have told the judge that SCO did no code comparisons since 1999, and in the 1999 comparisons they found zero infringement...
[January 8, 2005, 2:50]
PeopleSoft case hears more details on CEO concerns
News A PeopleSoft board member testified on Monday that former chief executive Craig Conway was fired in large part because of his 'reckless exaggeration' to Wall Street analysts when informing them last year that Oracle's offer to buy the company was...
[October 4, 2004, 17:20]
PeopleSoft boss gets the chop
News In a shock move on Friday, PeopleSoft announced its decision to terminate Craig Conway as president and chief executive of the company with immediate effect. An unusually curt press release said that said its decision "resulted from a loss of...
[October 1, 2004, 15:00]
PeopleSoft head exchanges fire with Ellison
News PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway on Monday continued the war of words in his company's battle to fend off a hostile bid from rival Oracle. At PeopleSoft's customer conference, Conway told the audience that his company is "profoundly grateful...
[September 16, 2003, 9:30]
.Net is IT 'asbestos', says PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft's .Net initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos. Speaking at the company's 2003 Leadership Summit in Sydney, Australia, Conway said the state of the global...
[May 19, 2003, 8:50]
Peoplesoft's founder steps aside
News PeopleSoft founder and chief executive David Duffield announced Tuesday that he was stepping aside to make room for current president Craig Conway to assume the helm of the software giant. In a release, Duffield said Conway has increasingly taken...
[September 22, 1999, 11:39]
Oracle wants silence from PeopleSoft chief
News Oracle, in a surprise move, announced on Monday that it would forgo calling PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway to the witness stand in the ongoing federal antitrust trial. Oracle had earlier anticipated calling Conway as a witness for a...
[June 29, 2004, 9:15]
PeopleSoft: Please ignore the ex-CEO behind the curtain
News Last Friday, the company fired chief executive Craig Conway, who was scheduled to deliver the keynote address on Monday. Wilmington also said that integrity, honesty, and respect were the core values for customers and employees -- remarks which...
[October 4, 2004, 17:30]
'The saga is over' - PeopleSoft chief
News Oracle may be pressing on with a nearly three-month-old unfriendly quest to buy PeopleSoft, but to PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway, Oracle's bid is all but dead. In an interview with CNET News.com on Wednesday, Conway said Oracle's $7.25bn...
[August 28, 2003, 8:35]
VPN Security Essentials: What You Need to Know
White Papers Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear from Positive Networks' Jason Sloderbeck, VP of Security & Service Delivery, and Evan Conway, EVP of Channel Management, who explain the special security concerns you need to...
[May 24, 2007, 12:01]
Napster founder scales new peaks
News A filing with the California Secretary of State states that Snocap was incorporated in Delaware on 28 October, 2002, with Conway listed as the sole officer. Based in San Francisco and backed by angel investor Ron Conway -- who also initially funded...
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
'Oracle and PeopleSoft talked merger in 2000': Ellison
News Ellison said on Friday that he had no personal animus toward Conway and that he disagreed with the decision to fire the former Oracle executive in the early 1990s. Ellison indicated that he had never anticipated the roadblocks that PeopleSoft's...
[October 11, 2004, 8:50]
PeopleSoft and Oracle 'talked often'
News Testifying Friday in US District Court, Oracle president Safra Catz revealed that the merger talks had advanced beyond a single conversation between Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway.
[June 28, 2004, 14:40]
PeopleSoft mops up J.D. Edwards shares
News PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway expressed confidence that the merger will be successful. Over the last month, we have moved rapidly to integrate the two companies," Conway said in a statement.
[September 1, 2003, 9:35]
Oracle gets its way, finally
News Does Conway's departure signal the imminent takeover of PeopleSoft, or does the appointment of Duffield show that they're in 'for the long term'? Conway v Ellison: It's over The very public sacking of Craig Conway has surprised the tech sector...
[December 13, 2004, 16:40]
GSM group declares victory in standards war
News The GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard for 3G (third generation) phones will dominate globally, according to the chief executive of the group backing the standard, the GSM Association's Rob Conway.
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
PeopleSoft executive leaves the company
News His departure comes just two weeks after Craig Conway was ousted from the chief executive position. The appointment of Swete, who was called out of retirement to take the job, is one of the first changes to PeopleSoft's management ranks since...
[October 15, 2004, 18:25]
