Oracle is muscling in on SAP's bid to buy software maker Retek, saying it plans to best its rival's US$8.50 per share offer with a US$9 bid on Wednesday in the US.
Nothing has caused more of a sensation during the Oracle antitrust trial than Microsoft's merger talks with SAP.
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.
If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice, he would be told to spend his money on Yahoo.
U.S. Department of Justice officials announced on Thursday that they will challenge Oracle's hostile US$9.4 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft, dealing a major blow to the controversial deal.
Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
Oracle on Friday announced a surprise US$5.1 billion takeover bid for enterprise software maker PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion.
The Oracle antitrust trial isn't the only thing that's throwing PeopleSoft off track these days, according to financial analysts.
Lured by the promise of personal attention every bit as good as that lavished on bigger customers, John Matelski decided seven years ago to buy a US$1.7 million accounting system from J.D. Edwards for the City of Orlando, Fla.
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