J.D. Edwards said Thursday that it has filed a US$1.7 billion suit against Oracle, claiming the database maker has illegally interfered in its proposed merger with PeopleSoft.
US Federal regulators said on Monday that the pending merger of PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards is not anticompetitive, clearing the way for the friendly US$1.7 billion deal and frustrating Oracle's desire to acquire PeopleSoft in a separate, hostile takeover bid.
Oracle has said it will consider buying PeopleSoft even if the proposed merger with J.D. Edwards goes through, and more acquisitions may be on the cards.
Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft sets the stage for a slugfest in the enterprise apps space but where does this leave Mr Customer?
Customers of J.D. Edwards are overwhelmingly opposed to Oracle's takeover bid for PeopleSoft, which plans to merge with J.D. Edwards, according to a poll taken by an organisation that represents J.D. Edwards customers.
Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft sets the stage for a slugfest in the enterprise apps space but where does this leave Mr Customer?
The software maker files plans to take over rival J.D. Edwards with the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, despite being the target of an Oracle buyout bid.
Oracle has severely understated the complexity of migrating PeopleSoft customers, and this could leave customers in a tough spot, says Meta Group.
The construction giant's AU$15 million, JD Edwards OneWorld implementation was initially intended as an upgrade to a struggling decade-old internal system but Thiess has found more than one reason to embrace a future version of the product.
Consolidation of Oracle's business applications into a single code base has passed the halfway mark, but the company's customers won't be forced into an upgrade before they're ready, Oracle executives promised an attentive crowd of more than 400 primarily JD Edwards users at this week's Quest '06 conference in Melbourne.
"Open to new ideas. Plays well with others."
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