Oracle still in fight for PeopleSoft despite shareholder support
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After 18 months of heated rhetoric, antitrust judgments and a few billion dollars more, Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile bid for smaller rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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A battle between rival shareholder groups is brewing in advance of Friday&#39;s final deadline for tendering shares to Oracle in support of its $9bn hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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Oracle dislikes what PeopleSoft is doing, but it's still buying.
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Oracle yesterday extended its controversial bid for enterprise resource software provider PeopleSoft, while both companies await the final judge&#39;s ruling in the Department of Justice (DoJ) anti-competition case.
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Despite a clear-cut show of support among its shareholders to accept Oracle&#39;s hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft&#39;s board is digging in for a fight.
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WASHINGTON, NOV 20 : After a bitter 18-month battle Oracle Corporation has succeeded in taking control of more than 60% of outstanding shares of rival business software group PeopleSoft, but obstacles to the hostile takeover remain.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. Investors continue to bet today that most PeopleSoft shareholders will back Oracle&#39;s nine-point-two (b) billion-dollar takeover bid for its bitter rival.
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PeopleSoft shareholders have until midnight tonight to decide whether to tender their stock in support of Oracle&#39;s $24-per-share offer for the business software concern.
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While it waits for a federal court to rule on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle (Quote, Chart) is keeping the deal in play. The database giant extended its previously announced tender offer of $21 for
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PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead  with a new marketing alliance and other initiatives in the face  of a court ruling that raises the chance that Oracle Corp.'s  $7.7-billion hostile takeover bid could succeed, PeopleSoft's  chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Unless a Delaware judge clears the way for Oracle Corp. to buy PeopleSoft Inc. in the next few weeks, the Pleasanton firm&#39;s shareholders will have the final say about their company&#39;s fate on March 25.
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A majority of PeopleSoft (PSFT) shareholders are expected to support Oracle&#39;s (ORCL) takeover bid when they tender shares Friday night.
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Business software maker  PeopleSoft Inc. on Saturday said its board again rejected  Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion tender offer, remaining defiant a  day after most of its shares were tendered to Oracle.
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Oracle may yet prevail, but not because its target is surrendering. Digging in for a long fight is more likely. When PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors fired Chief Executive Craig Conway on Oct. 1, Wall Street
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NEW YORK  - Software giant Oracle Corp.&#39;s shares dipped while the stock of its rival, PeopleSoft, rose ahead of a court battle this week over PeopleSoft&#39;s resistance to Oracle&#39;s 18-month-old takeover bid.
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At its user conference on Wednesday, Oracle continued sending mixed messages to PeopleSoft customers concerned about how Oracle will support their products if it succeeds in its $9.2 billion takeover bid.
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PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors rejected Oracle Corp.'s &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid Wednesday and vowed to continue its staunch resistance even if a majority of the business software maker's shareholders decide to accept the offer.