PeopleSoft board rejects Oracle&#39;s best and last offer
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Defining the word unsurprising, PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors unanimously rejected Oracle&#39;s &quot;best and final&quot; $24 per share offer for the company.
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Business-software maker PeopleSoft Inc.  on Saturday said its board has again unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s  &#36;9.2 billion tender offer, even after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares had been tendered to Oracle.
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PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors said it rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid Saturday, continuing its staunch resistance a day after the company's own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of stock to Oracle.
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That was the message sent by Oracle Corp. on Monday as the company made a &quot;best and final&quot; offer to take over PeopleSoft Inc.
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Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) presented its &quot;best and final offer&quot; for takeover prey PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) Monday.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Tuesday denied an analyst report that its executives recently met with Oracle Corp. , the rival software vendor that last year launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle said today that it has learned that PeopleSoft will reject its $8.8bn, $24 a share, &quot;best and final&quot; cash tender offer.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday said it  asked Peoplesoft Inc.'s board of directors to rescind an  anti-takeover provision, two days after a majority of  PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their stock in favor of  Oracle's $9.2 billion hostile offer.
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After 18 months of bickering, litigation, executive shuffling, antitrust rulings, and revised offers from Oracle, the PeopleSoft Board finally decided to accept Oracle&#39;s most recent offer of $26.50 per share.
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PeopleSoft's Board of Directors voted Wednesday to recommend that its stockholders reject Oracle's takeover offer of $24 per share. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison quickly responded, saying the offer is final and that it is now up to PeopleSoft's shareholders to make a determination.
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Oracle says its latest bid to purchase PeopleSoft is its &quot;best and final offer.&quot; At $24 per share, Oracle&#39;s offer is higher than PeopleSoft&#39;s 24-week high.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- A Delaware judge rejected the proposed settlement of a lawsuit brought against PeopleSoft Inc. by shareholders over the company&#39;s resistance to Oracle Corp.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday again asked PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors to rescind an anti-takeover provision, as the two business software makers prepared to return
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While it has so far rejected each of Oracle Corp.&#39;s takeover offers, PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board of directors is willing to talk about a deal at the right price, a member of PeopleSoft&#39;s board said Tuesday.
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Oracle says it will nix the claim unless PeopleSoft shareholders agree to sell at least half their holdings by on Nov. 19.
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Oracle&#160;on Tuesday morning said that BEA Systems has officially rejected its&#160;offer to acquire the company. BEA had previously said the&#160;offer was too low.&quot;Last night we were told by Bill Klein, Vice President -- Business Planning and Development (speaking on behalf of the board), that BEA&#39;s board again rejected our proposed price of $17 per share in cash,&quot; Oracle said in a statement, adding that the BEA board &quot;has refused to meet with us since we made our October 9th proposal.&quot;Oracle set a deadline for Sunday at 5 p.m. local time on its $17 per share bid.&quot;Oracle has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA,&quot; Oracle said.The total value of the bid is about $6.7 billion.(More to follow.)
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Software maker Oracle Corp.  ORCL.O on Wednesday said it will let PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O  shareholders decide for themselves whether to accept Oracle's  $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid after learning that  PeopleSoft's board of directors will reject it.