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.
Nothing has caused more of a sensation during the Oracle antitrust trial than Microsoft's merger talks with SAP.
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.
Oracle on Tuesday trotted out numerous PeopleSoft documents discussing competitive pressure from Lawson Software and a variety of other makers of business application software.
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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