PeopleSoft Plays Defense
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I admire PeopleSoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: PSFT) fight. Tuesday, the business software maker announced a broad partnership with IBM (NYSE: IBM) in which Big Blue&#39;s popular WebSphere middleware
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. attacked the credibility and motives of PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors Monday, hoping to rally investor support as the 17-month takeover battle between the bitter business software rivals nears a climactic showdown.
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Vox populi: Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) attorney Michael Carroll says the firm will abandon its legal assault on PeopleSoft&#39;s (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) &quot;poison pill&quot; defenses--if investors fail to tender at least 50% of their shares by Nov
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The judge who must decide whether PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s corporate takeover defenses will stand up against a hostile takeover attempt by Oracle Corp.
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When Craig Conway took charge at PeopleSoft in 1999, the maverick ex-Oracle salesman was given free rein to turn around the software maker's country-club atmosphere and whip it into shape for fierce competition. And, in large part, he succeeded.
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The battle for who will ultimately control business software maker PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is reaching a fever pitch not seen since the red state-blue state smackdown from earlier this month.
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Lack of faith never looked so good. As regular readers of Faces In The News are aware, earlier this month the board of PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) ousted Chief Executive Craig Conway.
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InfoWorld - Although the threat of Oracle&#8217;s hostile takeover continues to cast a shadow over it, PeopleSoft is pressing on with plans to integrate into its product mix the enterprise applications it picked up last year in its acquisition of J.D. Edwards.
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WILMINGTON, Del.--Oracle has stepped up its attack on PeopleSoft&#39;s customer refund program in an effort to convince a judge that the anti-takeover measure is unnecessary and should be eliminated.
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PeopleSoft is worth substantially more than $24 a share, according to its own board of directors. So saying, the board rejected Oracle&#39;s latest offer to purchase the enterprise software company.
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With Oracle cinching a critical antitrust victory on Thursday, PeopleSoft will find it increasingly difficult to resist its rival&#39;s $7.
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The battle for PeopleSoft intensified on Tuesday, with the company&#39;s two top shareholders said to be taking opposite sides in the software maker&#39;s struggle against an $8.8 billion hostile bid by its bigger rival Oracle.
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Former PeopleSoft chief executive Craig Conway has admitted that he lied to Wall Street analysts about the health of the business during his defence against the hostile bid from rival Oracle.
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Last week&#39;s news that Oracle will buy PeopleSoft for a small premium over Oracle&#39;s most recent offer was almost the ultimate in anticlimaxes.
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It&#39;s the little victories... As Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) awaits the resumption of its court battle with takeover target PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ), two of the software giant&#39;s
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PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway, who has spent 15 months fighting off Oracle&#39;s hostile takeover attempt, said his company is digging in for a battle it expects to last many more months.
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CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO  - Options traders have been  building bullish positions in PeopleSoft Inc.  PSFT.O as  investors bet a federal judge will approve Oracle Corp.'s  hostile takeover bid of the business software maker, traders  said on Monday.