PeopleSoft pushes upgrade sweeteners
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2004  - SAN FRANCISCO -- Embattled PeopleSoft Inc. is offering a sweetener to customers to migrate to the latest versions of its products, hopefully allowing it to close more sales
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By Spencer Swartz SAN FRANCISCO  - PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead with a new marketing alliance with IBM and other initiatives despite a recent court ruling that bolstered Oracle Corp.'s $7.7-billion hostile bid to acquire the company, PeopleSoft's CEO said on Tuesday.
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ORACLE chief executive Larry Ellison has increased his companyâs offer for rival software company PeopleSoft, and set a deadline for the first time since the hostile takeover bid began in June 2003.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft  Inc. has accepted a sweetened $10.3 billion acquisition offer  from rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter, 18-month hostile  takeover battle, the companies said on Monday.
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Oracle has extended the deadline for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to acquire its business software rival--the 11th extension of the offer since Oracle launched the bid more than 15 months ago.
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PeopleSoft announced a broad partnership with IBM on Tuesday, in an attempt to show that it is moving forward aggressively despite the turmoil created by Oracle&#39;s $7.
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update In the latest twist in the hostilities between Oracle and PeopleSoft, Wall Street&#39;s footsoldiers are massing for battle.
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Oracle Corp. continued to release pieces of its PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications suite, turning its attentions to performance management. The move is part of Oracle's most substantial revamp of the suite since acquiring PeopleSoft in January 2005.
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Software manufacturer Oracle Corp. said Monday that it raised its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 per share from $21, and said the new price represents the company&#39;s &quot;best and final offer.
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PeopleSoft has quadrupled the size of the minimum severance package for its employees and doubled it for executives, as Oracle&#39;s hostile bid got a recent boost in the courts.
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PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead with a new marketing alliance and other initiatives in the face of a court ruling that raises the chance that Oracle Corp.
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PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) has announced a suite-wide upgrade of its human resources management applications, the first such revision in two years. The new release, version 8.9, includes over 250 individual changes and improvements, according to the company.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday raised its hostile bid for Peoplesoft Inc. to $9.2 billion, a 14 percent increase over its earlier $7.7 billion bid, which it called its &quot;best and final offer&quot; in the 17-month saga.
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After 18 months of playing hard to get, business software maker PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) finally decided yesterday to glam itself up in the hope that suitor Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) might give it one more look.
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As Oracle Corp. pushes forward with its hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for $7.7 billion, it is also sizing up further acquisition
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (Dow Jones/AP) -- Oracle Corp. extended its hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. for the 12th time, pushing the tender offer through Oct. 8. In a press release Thursday, Oracle said about