Oracle Chairman Says CEO's Salary is the Purview of Shareholders
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By Frank Nelson, Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif.  Sep. 8--Oracle Corp. Chairman Jeffrey Henley was a model of diplomacy as  he fielded some potentially sticky questions from members of the Channel City  Club during a lunch meeting in Santa Barbara on Thursday.
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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive  Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest people, is looking at  possibly owning a National Football League franchise, the Los  Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's third-largest software maker, on Friday said Chief Executive Larry Ellison adopted a plan to sell up to 100 million of the company's shares over the next nine months.
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NEW YORK - Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and his lieutenants, armed with impressive earnings forecasts, Wednesday made a confident sales pitch to Wall Street on their blockbuster acquisition of PeopleSoft.
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PeopleSoft Inc. won't discuss a sale to Oracle Corp. for a price of $24 per share, the company's board of directors Saturday told Oracle Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Larry Ellison in a letter.
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The PeopleSoft Board concluded that PeopleSoft is worth much more than the $24 per share price offered by Oracle. They reiterated that they will not sell the company for less than it is worth.
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The directors of the companies that make up the FTSE-100 index of leading firms earned a combined one billion pounds in wages in the last financial year, a survey conducted by The Guardian and published on Wednesday showed.
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A company board member testifies in trial that a sale would be possible if Oracle ups its offer.
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CQ&quot;&gt; Walt Disney Company shareholders might have done a double take when their chief executive, Michael D. Eisner, testified in court last week about the brief tenure of his friend, Michael S. Ovitz, as company president.
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Increased oversight of chief executive  compensation has placed a lid on big salary jumps for CEOs in  very large U.S. organizations, according to a survey.
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Company executives are putting their money where their mouths are.
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Analysts were expecting Oracle earnings of 9 cents per share with revenue of $2.23 billion, according to Thomson First Call. New software license revenue came in at $563 billion, meeting
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ORACLE chief executive Larry Ellison has testified that the business software maker was leaning toward lowering its $US7.7 billion ($10.
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BEA Systems&#39; largest shareholder is demanding that its board of directors allow shareholders to vote on a&#160;$17-per-share purchase offer from Oracle, which is set to expire at 5 p.m. Pacific Time Sunday.Carl Icahn, who holds more than 58 million shares of BEA stock, said in a statement that he has begun lawsuit proceedings in Delaware to force an annual shareholder meeting &quot;before any scorched earth transactions (such as stock issuances, asset sales, acquisitions or similar occurrences) take place at BEA, other than transactions that are approved by shareholders.&quot;The investor accused BEA&#39;s board of intending &quot;to find ways to derail a sale and maintain your control of the company.&quot;&#160;BEA&#39;s board has repeatedly rejected Oracle&#39;s bid&#160;to buy the company,&#160;demanding $21 per share. Oracle&#39;s offer amounts to $6.7 billion, while BEA&#39;s demand works out to $8.3 billion. Oracle has called that price &quot;impossibly high.&quot;Icahn said BEA can avoid litigation if it conducts an auction sale, allowing shareholders to consider offers from the highest bidder.&quot;BEA should not allow the stalking horse bid from Oracle to disappear (failure to take the Oracle bid as a stalking horse would be a grave dereliction of your fiduciary duty in my view),&quot; he wrote. &quot;But if no topping bid arises it should be up to the BEA shareholders to decide whether to take the Oracle bid or remain as an independent Company.&quot;Icahn also demanded that &quot;BEA should agree not to take any action that would dilute voting by issuing stock, entrench management or derail a potential sale of BEA.&quot;Shares of BEA stock closed at $16.50 and were trading at $16.75 after hours on Friday.A BEA spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Lawrence Ellison, the chief executive of the Oracle Corporation, said that he had had more discussions about lowering rather than raising his hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Friday his company has talked about revising its current $21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle CEO says rival company raised the idea, but talks foundered over who'd lead the conjoined company.