The PeopleSoft vs. Oracle story
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A Register History The tale of Oracle&#39;s attempt to buy Peoplesoft is a story of Larry Ellison&#39;s relentless pursuit of his target in the face of implacable hostility from the PeopleSoft board.
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PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s shareholders have spoken: They want to sell their company to Oracle Corp. for $24 per share. In another victory for Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison in his bid to buy PeopleSoft
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PeopleSoft Inc. capitulated to Oracle Corp., accepting a sweetened $10.3 billion takeover offer to end an 18-month battle that pitted PeopleSoft against its investors and led to the ouster of its chief executive.
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For the past 18 months, Oracle has been locked in a battle to acquire rival PeopleSoft involving courtroom drama, poison pills, personal enmity and, recently, the departure of PeopleSoft&#39;s CEO Craig Conway.
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It&#39;s been a heck of a week for the software industry. First there was Oracle&#39;s Dec. 13 long-sought-after deal to acquire rival PeopleSoft (PSFT ) for $10.3 billion.
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The Motley Fool - Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News), certainly likes enemies. Perhaps he reasons combativeness will motivate the troops in the battle for software dominance. And, of course, he did win his long battle with PeopleSoft, which he now owns.
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PeopleSoft fired its chief executive, Craig Conway, yesterday in an unexpected twist to the firm&#39;s attempt to fend off its larger rival Oracle.
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Sure, the PeopleSoft board told shareholders to just say no. This battle will go down to the wire, and even afterward Ellison could prevail.
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The standoff between Oracle and PeopleSoft is once again at an impasse, as PeopleSoft&#39;s board refuses to sell the company at the price Oracle has offered, and Oracle refuses to raise its bid.
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Last week's firing of Craig Conway as PeopleSoft's CEO, followed by testimony from a PeopleSoft director this week that he would be open to discussions with Oracle if the price was right, appears to have changed the dynamics between the two companies.
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PeopleSoft (PSFT) CEO Craig Conway isn&#39;t about to go down without a fight in his company&#39;s takeover tussle with rival Oracle (ORCL).
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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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Ongoing battle between rival software makers enters new stage. Board has vowed to continue resistance. By Michael Liedtke. SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 60 percent of PeopleSoft Inc.
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Less than a month after a federal court ruled that Oracle could pursue its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, and almost immediately after PeopleSoft on Friday fired Craig Conway, its chief executive, the skirmish between the two companies is shifting to a
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Oracle&#39;s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft has sparked plenty of fireworks over the past 18 months. It also has highlighted a more subtle dilemma: Oracle&#39;s struggles to expand in a maturing software industry.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 -- Software maker PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. in a &#36;10.3 billion deal, ending one of the longest and nastiest takeover battles in recent corporate history.
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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.