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  • Microsoft documents detail SAP buyout plan

    Nothing has caused more of a sensation during the Oracle antitrust trial than Microsoft's merger talks with SAP.

  • Oracle sees plenty of competitors

    Oracle on Tuesday trotted out numerous PeopleSoft documents discussing competitive pressure from Lawson Software and a variety of other makers of business application software.

  • Oracle president backpedals on 'oligopoly' report

    In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft comprised an oligopoly for back-office business applications.

  • Oracle hits hard at Justice Dept's case

    Oracle attorneys made a forceful effort to blast holes in the government's case to block its US$7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft in the opening arguments of a federal antitrust trial here on Monday in the US.

  • Microsoft-SAP talks rooted in market concern

    Microsoft worried that if Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, it could lose ground in the database software market, and that fear spurred Microsoft to discuss a merger with SAP last year.

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