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EC approves Oracle-PeopleSoft merger
News During courtroom testimony, Steven Goldby, a PeopleSoft director, said the merger was all about the price tag. European antitrust regulators ruled on Tuesday that Oracle can proceed with its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, clearing the last...
[October 26, 2004, 15:45]
Oracle seeks to reassure PeopleSoft customers
News Oracle appears to be putting its money where its mouth is after sealing its merger with PeopleSoft last week -- acting quickly to reassure uncertain new customers of its good intentions. Among the bullets: Oracle will ensure that customers...
[December 21, 2004, 8:35]
Oracle-Siebel deal gets EC clearance
News European Commission officials gave their blessing on Thursday to Oracle's $5.8bn (£3.3bn) merger with Siebel Systems, removing the last major antitrust hurdle for the enterprise software companies. Oracle executives previously indicated they...
[December 22, 2005, 15:25]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: One year on
News After a contentious, protracted courtship, the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger has hit its one-year anniversary mark, with the post-merger marriage going relatively smoothly. With the merger, Oracle got operating efficiency, but you have to ask yourself...
[January 12, 2006, 13:00]
Oracle-Siebel merger gets mixed reaction
News Oracle's merger with Siebel received mixed reviews on Monday from analysts, customers and partners, but there were few concerns about the companies' ability to integrate. The merger may also curtail any business Oracle is expecting to reap from...
[September 13, 2005, 8:50]
PeopleSoft: What the customers and staff are saying
News And Oracle competitors are weighing the merger's potential effect on their business. One of the major reasons for Oracle's interest in the merger is the recurring revenue from maintenance fees and upgrades to existing software paid by PeopleSoft...
[December 15, 2004, 13:35]
'Oracle and PeopleSoft talked merger in 2000': Ellison
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison testified on Friday that he and his board of directors came close to a merger with PeopleSoft in 2000, and had expected that last year's takeover bid would have been accepted within a matter of weeks.
[October 11, 2004, 8:50]
Documents reveal Microsoft's SAP strategy
News Nothing has caused more of a sensation during the Oracle antitrust trial than Microsoft's merger talks with SAP. Oracle contends that Microsoft's merger talks with SAP prove the company is determined to compete in the "high-function" business...
[June 30, 2004, 14:50]
J.D. Edwards sues Oracle for $1.7bn
News Edwards said on Thursday that it has filed a $1.7bn (£1bn) lawsuit against Oracle, claiming the database maker has illegally interfered in its proposed merger with PeopleSoft. Oracle's sole aim is to disrupt a merger that will create value for the...
[June 13, 2003, 8:11]
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]
PeopleSoft 9 on the way
News PeopleSoft 9 marks one of Oracle's three major 2006 initiatives post merger mania with PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and host of smaller applications companies. Oracle plans to announce on Monday the release of PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, as the software...
[June 26, 2006, 9:45]
Behind the scenes of Oracle-Siebel
News According to a proxy filling this week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Oracle and Siebel were quietly discussing a potential merger in November 2003, about five months after Oracle made a hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
[October 25, 2005, 15:40]
Legal victory for Oracle opens way for PeopleSoft takeover
News US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker sided with Oracle against the US Department of Justice, which opposes the proposed merger. In his 164-page ruling, Walker sided with Oracle on most counts: "Plaintiffs have not proved that a post-merger Oracle...
[September 10, 2004, 9:50]
PeopleSoft can buy J.D. Edwards
News Once Oracle submits the requested documents and materials to the DOJ, the federal antitrust agency will have 10 days to inform the software company whether it will challenge its merger proposal or let it go through.
[July 15, 2003, 7:39]
Q&A: J.D. Edwards CEO on resisting Oracle
News The HP-Compaq merger was very different from an Oracle-PeopleSoft merger. That is why the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act is in place, and that's why the US Department of Justice is looking so carefully at the PeopleSoft-Oracle merger.
[July 3, 2003, 10:35]
Oracle lays off PeopleSoft staff by post
News Oracle appears to be adding insult to injury in its merger with PeopleSoft -- taking the unusual step of notifying workers of their termination by sending "pink slips", the US equivalent of P45s, via express mail to their homes.
[January 14, 2005, 8:15]
Microsoft sets its sights on PeopleSoft customers
News During his testimony, Burgum stressed that Microsoft had no plans to compete with SAP, after its failed merger talks, nor with Oracle or PeopleSoft for large, complex enterprise customers seeking to buy business applications software.
[January 11, 2005, 8:40]
Oracle will not swallow 'poison pill'
News Oracle stunned the software community on Friday when it launched a $5.1bn (£3.2bn) hostile bid for PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft announced a $1.7bn (£1.03bn) merger with J.D. If the merger is completed, Oracle will be "providing...
[June 9, 2003, 14:51]
Regulators seek deeper probe of Oracle-Siebel deal
News Antitrust regulators on Monday extended the deadline for reviewing the Oracle and Siebel merger, as Department of Justice requested additional information in connection with the deal. Improvements Act, had faced a deadline of midnight Monday to...
[October 25, 2005, 9:10]
PeopleSoft and Oracle 'talked often'
News PeopleSoft and Oracle had numerous discussions about a friendly merger about a year before Oracle launched its hostile bid for PeopleSoft -- including an in-person meeting among the company's top executives.
[June 28, 2004, 14:40]
