PeopleSoft Warming To Oracle&#39;s Offer?
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What Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has longed to hear from PeopleSoft behind closed doors instead floated to the surface in a Delaware courthouse.
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NEW YORK, October 8  - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) is considering altering its takeover bid for the rival business software company, PeopleSoft, with discussions leaning towards a potential decline in the current offer of $7.
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The Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover battle may have finally entered its endgame, with Oracle Corp upping its bid and for the first time imposing a deadline for PeopleSoft Inc shareholders to accept it.
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Oracle said clearance for the bid from the European Union, granted last week, prompted the move. Oracle hopes the higher price will persuade PeopleSoft to drop its remaining obstacles to the deal.
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PeopleSoft Inc. shares surged 15 percent as investors interpreted the ouster of the company&#39;s chief executive as a sign the company might now be willing to accept Oracle Corp.
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Oracle lifted its purchase offer for PeopleSoft to $24 per share from a previous bid of $21. &quot;This price represents a significant premium to recent trading prices, and is in excess of the 52
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PEOPLESOFT IS considering a bid from its rival Oracle now that its CEO, who opposed the deal, is out of the way. Peoplesoft director Steven Goldby told a Delaware court on Tuesday that the software maker would
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Oracle may be breathing fire down its neck with an ongoing hostile takeover effort, but PeopleSoft is trying to withstand the siege and stay independent. The business software company has struck a pact with IBM to woo customers and bolster its business, although there's plenty of debate over whether Big Blue will pull off a dramatic rescue.
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With PeopleSoft stocksholders reportedly tendering some 60 percent of the company&#39;s shares, Oracle is pressing forward with its proposed hostile takeover.
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Opinion I thought it was a joke when Oracle first announced that it was going to try to buy PeopleSoft; or, at best, a spoiling tactic over PeopleSoft&#39;s acquisition of JD Edwards.
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Oracle&#39;s agreement to buy PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share, or approximately $10.3 billion, means a new era for users of PeopleSoft&#39;s enterprise applications.
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The investors have spoken and decided that Oracle buying PeopleSoft for $9.2bn in cash sounds like a pretty good deal. More than 60 percent of PeopleSoft investors tendered their shares to Oracle, giving the
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Oracle is offering US$21 per share or about US$7.7 billion for PeopleSoft, a leader in human resources management software and an applications rival of Oracle.
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A PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) board member told a Delaware court on Tuesday that the software maker would consider a bid from its rival Oracle Corp.
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With Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) $24-a-share offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) set to expire late Friday night, the database giant has thrown cold water on the notion that the price could go higher.
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Oracle has put up its &quot;best and final&quot; offer for PeopleSoft at US$24 per share. The new price is up $3 from Oracle&#39;s last offer, and is in excess of PeopleSoft&#39;s 52-week closing price high.
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Oracle is to raise its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft to $8.8 billion, calling this its &#39;best and final&#39; offer.