Oracle president avoids controversy
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle President Charles Phillips opened Oracle's largest user show to date with a keynote address that avoided controversial topics like Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoftÂ and focused instead on a high-level overview of Oracle's vision for flexible, integrated IT systems.
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Board member testifies Conway was fired because he said Oracle&#39;s offer didn&#39;t affect business. WILMINGTON, Del.  - Former PeopleSoft Inc.
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If Oracle (Quote, Chart) is buying, PeopleSoft&#39;s Dave Duffield isn&#39;t selling -- at least not at these prices. The founder and new CEO of the Pleasanton, Calif.
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PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O on Tuesday  denied an analyst report that its executives recently met with  Oracle Corp. ORCL.O, the rival software vendor that last year  launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite Oracleâs strategic push for Linux- and Intel-based deployments, Sun Microsystems retains its position as the leading platform for Oracle, Sun Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy said Wednesday at the Oracle OpenWorld conference here.
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Opinion: According to its president, Oracle has a clear idea of how it&#39;s going to slice up PeopleSoft to retain the choicest assets and send the rest to the corporate rendering yard.
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The Oracle community, says David Litchfield, shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security.
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Lawrence J. Ellison, the chief executive of the Oracle Corporation, said on Friday that he had had more discussions about lowering rather than raising his $21-a-share hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle Chief Larry Ellison may be No. 10 on Forbes magazine&#39;s list of the top 400 wealthiest Americans, but that doesn&#39;t make buying a football team--let alone another software company--an easy feat.
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Union leaders say they avoided a showdown with Gordon Brown because they did not want to ruin his first conference as leader.
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PeopleSoft (PSFT) CEO Craig Conway isn&#39;t about to go down without a fight in his company&#39;s takeover tussle with rival Oracle (ORCL).
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Last week's firing of Craig Conway as PeopleSoft's CEO, followed by testimony from a PeopleSoft director this week that he would be open to discussions with Oracle if the price was right, appears to have changed the dynamics between the two companies.
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At a women's conference, the former CEO looks to her shared history with HP and dismisses talk of today's turmoil.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) CEO Steve Ballmer urged Asian government leaders not to take sides in the Linux versus Windows debate. &quot;We recommend to all governments that they not get emotionally involved in preferring
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Oracle declined to comment on Conway&#39;s removal by PeopleSoft. But in a statement, chairman Jeff Henley said: &quot;We are now looking forward to the trial in Delaware of our claims
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[Wilmington, Delaware | Reuters News Service, 11 October 2004] - Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said on Friday that Oracle has talked about revising its $21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft, but he dented Wall Street expectations by saying
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PC Magazine - News Analysis: PeopleSoft customers raise questions about Oracle's service quality.