SAP unfazed by Oracle, Peoplesoft merger
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SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, said it was not concerned by the creation of a new number two in the sector via the merger of rivals Oracle and Peoplesoft in the United States.
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Oracle&#39;s (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) $10.3 billion blockbuster acquisition of PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) is already yesterday&#39;s news.
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Though the long-running Oracle bid to acquire PeopleSoft finally achieved closure, solution providers on Monday had mixed reactions to the deal, expressing both hopes and fears about how it would impact the business applications market.
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The Department of Justice took Oracle to court in May, claiming that its acquisition of PeopleSoft would create a duopoly between it and market leader SAP in the enterprise applications market.
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Software maker SAP AG   admitted a subsidiary had carried out "inappropriate downloads"  of documents belonging to archrival Oracle Corp but said on  Tuesday SAP itself had not had access to that material.
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FRANKFURT/BOSTON  - Software maker SAP AG   disclosed that a U.S. subsidiary made "inappropriate  downloads" of data from rival Oracle Corp.'s  Web site  and said U.S. authorities asked it to hand over internal  documents.
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Software maker SAP admitted a subsidiary had carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents belonging to archrival Oracle but said on Tuesday SAP itself had not had access to that material.
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SAP AG , the world's largest maker of business-management software, said it made "inappropriate" downloads of Oracle Corp. documents, responding to a lawsuit that claims the German company stole files from the competitor.
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Oracle is now OracleSoft, and that means SAP will soon have some real competition on its hands. Oracle&#39;s recent monster user conference, the first that united its technology, database and
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San Francisco, December 7: Oracle Corp on Monday said it believes its business software applications, an area that has lagged the rest of the company, are gaining ground against market leader SAP AG of Germany.
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Oracle is concerned PeopleSoft customers might abandon maintenance contracts that could help it spend more on new software products to compete with SAP AG, the world's biggest business software maker.
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Business software vendors PeopleSoft and SAP separately debuted new technologies to further consolidate their respective positions in the manufacturing market.
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_ Oracle Corp. finally scooped up bitter rival PeopleSoft Inc. after 18 months of legal and verbal strife, ending a nasty feud with a $10.3 billion deal that promises to shake up the business software industry.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion SolutionsÂ for $3.3 billion in cash, it said Thursday. Oracle said it will combine Hyperion's software with its own business intelligence and analytics tools to offer customers a broad range of performance management capabilities, including planning, budgeting and operational analytics. The deal, the latest big purchase by Oracle following its acquisitions of applications vendorsÂ PeopleSoft,Â Siebel Systems,Â and others, will expand Oracle's portfolio of database, applications and middleware products with a set of business intelligence products. These are used by companies to collect and analyze information about their businesses. It will continueÂ Oracle's strategyÂ of growing its revenue and customer base through big acquisitions. But it will also present the challenge of integrating yet another large company into a business that is still absorbing the products and employees of PeopleSoft and other acquisitions. The companies hope to close the acquisition by April, subject to customary closing conditions. Oracle has agreed to pay $52 per share for Hyperion, or about $3.3 billion, a premium of 21 percent over Hyperion's closing share price Wednesday. Part of Oracle's motivation for the deal appears to be to poach customers from its chief applications rival SAP: Many SAP customers use Hyperion software, and the acquisition will bring them closer to Oracle, said Oracle President Charles Phillips in a statement. Hyperion has 12,000 customers using its software, and about 2,500 employees spread over 20 countries, according to information on its Web site. It reported revenue of $765.2 million for the fiscal year to June 30, 2006. Earlier this year Oracle was rumored to have been in acquisition talks with Hyperion rival Business Objects, of Paris. In the past, Oracle executives have discussed improving the business intelligence capabilities in its Oracle database, and buying Hyperion could potentially give the company a selling point over database rival IBM. Hyperion is among IBM's business intelligence partners. But Oracle is also close partners with BI market leader Business Objects, of Paris, and is developing new products that integrate IBM's data warehousing software with Business Objects' products, sources familiar with those plans said this week. It is also a close partner of open-source business intelligence vendor Pentaho Corp. The acquisition will be at least the 27th deal Oracle has announced since the start of 2005.
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Microsoft will likely join forces with SAP or pursue new targets in the enterprise application business in the aftermath of Oracle&#39;s acquisition of PeopleSoft, Microsoft partners say.
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It&#39;s an early Christmas for Oracle Corp.âand PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders. The two companies announced early Monday morning a definitive merger agreement whereby Oracle will acquire PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share, or $10.3 billion.
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Software company SAP AG said Tuesday that one of its units made "some inappropriate downloads," as it responded to a lawsuit filed by rival Oracle Corp. that alleged corporate theft.