Oracle's 18-month hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft came to an end on Friday evening with a single phone call.
Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low.
Oracle's megamerger with Siebel Systems received mixed reviews on Monday from analysts, customers and partners, but there were few concerns about the companies' ability to integrate.
The Oracle manager who oversaw the integration of the Asia-Pacific operations of acquisition targets Siebel and PeopleSoft into the software heavyweight has been promoted.
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A single phone call on Friday evening brought the long-running Oracle-PeopleSoft fight to a close, Oracle President Chuck Phillips revealed.
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