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Oracle on Tuesday officially submitted its notification papers to the European Commission on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
At an analysts' event, the company discusses PeopleSoft, its planned entry into the market for collaboration software and more.
Since taking the reins of Germany's SAP last year, Henning Kagermann has hardly had a dull moment. In this interview, he talks about Microsoft's bid to acquire the company, and where the enterprise software market is headed.
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