Oracle wins Â£5.4bn fight
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PeopleSoft finally gave in yesterday and accepted a $10.3bn (Â£5.4bn) takeover proposal from its larger rival Oracle, ending a pursuit that has lasted 18 months and has been marked by bitter personal insults and a series of courtroom battles.
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Oracle chalked up a key victory Friday in its battle to acquire PeopleSoft, with investors agreeing to sell the suitor 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares.
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SOFTWARE giant Oracle&#39;s stalled $7.7bn (Â£4.2bn) bid to take over competitor PeopleSoft has received a huge boost after a US judge threw out an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice to block the acquisition.
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison raised his company&#39;s offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 a share, or $9.2 billion, calling the fifth bid over a 17-month takeover battle the &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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Oracle won a key legal victory in its quest to buy PeopleSoft last week, but the grueling war for control of its software rival is far from over, industry analysts say.
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Oracle will eliminate about 5,000 jobs following its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft, the company said Friday.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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NEW YORK, September 15 (New Ratings) - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) reported its 1Q FY05 earnings ahead of expectations, despite a 36% year-over-year decline in the company&#39;s enterprise application software sales during the quarter.
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Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit topped analyst expectations, providing further validation for a $25 billion shopping spree that has enabled the software maker to narrow rival SAP AG's long-standing lead in the business applications market.
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By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York. PeopleSoft succumbed to a sweetened $10.3bn (Â£5.22bn) takeover offer from Oracle yesterday, putting an end to a bitter 18- month battle that
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Larry Ellison&#39;s software maker Oracle yesterday got the green light from a US federal judge for its US$7.7 billion takeover of smaller rival PeopleSoft, sending PeopleSoft shares up 15 per cent.
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NEW YORK - Oracle announced early Saturday morning that more than 60% of PeopleSoft investors had tendered their shares to the company, letting Oracle continue its fight in the takeover battle for PeopleSoft, a battle that has lasted 17 months to date.
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The European commission yesterday approved Oracle Corp&#39;s proposed $7.7bn hostile takeover of rival software company PeopleSoft, clearing the last competition hurdle to the deal.
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The European Commission is set to give US software giant Oracle the go-ahead to take over arch-rival PeopleSoft in a $7.7 billion (4.
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Oracle Corp , the world's  third-largest software maker, won a three-month-long campaign  to buy BEA Systems Inc  by raising its bid for the  company by 14 percent to $8.5 billion.
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After Larry flashes extra cash Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to buy BEA for $8.5bn.â¦
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Oracle will eliminate about 5,000 jobs following its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft, the company said Friday.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.