A senior IBM executive has ruled out the technology heavyweight riding to the rescue of embattled applications software company PeopleSoft as it fights a US$7.3 billion hostile acquisition bid by Oracle.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft is jumping on the Linux bandwagon and calling on IBM for a hand up.
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison testified Friday that he and his board of directors came close to a merger with PeopleSoft in 2000, and had expected that last year's takeover bid would have been accepted within a matter of weeks.
In a shock move on Friday, PeopleSoft announced its decision to terminate Craig Conway as president and chief executive of the company with immediate effect.
Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
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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.
Oracle launched on Wednesday a new set of upgrades for the JD Edwards compliance software it absorbed via its buyout of PeopleSoft.
Oracle has severely understated the complexity of migrating PeopleSoft customers, and this could leave customers in a tough spot, says Meta Group.
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