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Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking has declared it will drop Red Hat for its underwhelming Linux support service and switch to Oracle instead.
Months after a media frenzy over a rumoured Oracle acquisition, JBoss continues to field buyout offers and consider further venture funding, the company's chief executive says.
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.
Some PeopleSoft shareholders want to put a halt to the enterprise software maker's customer refund program to create more favorable conditions for rival Oracle if that company's hostile takeover bid proves successful.
One year on, the postmerger company is hanging on to most PeopleSoft customers, but some big tests still lie ahead. We look at what has passed and what is yet to come.
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Is PeopleSoft's founder and long-time chief executive back at the helm to accept Oracle's takeover bid, or to dig in for a long-term battle?
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
The Oracle antitrust trial isn't the only thing that's throwing PeopleSoft off track these days, according to financial analysts.
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