PeopleSoft Defies Oracle Ties Up with IBM
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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.
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No one can envy the position of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) executives as they enter their annual Connect user conference this week. Last year's show was dominated by speculation over Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) hostile takeover bid for the company -- a prospect they hoped would be squelched by this year.
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EUROPEAN antitrust regulators have cleared Oracle to pursue its hostile $US7.7 billion bid to buy PeopleSoft, but the legal breakthrough wasn&#39;t expected to end the stalemate between the bitter business software rivals.
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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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Oracle's dangerous liaison with PeopleSoft mixes flirtation with rejection.
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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.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. strengthened its ties with technology giant IBM Corp. on Tuesday, hoping to boost its recently sagging sales as it continues to fight Oracle Corp.'s &#36;7.7 billion hostile takeover bid.
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After an 18-month hostile takeover battle, Oracle has finally won control of rival PeopleSoft, creating the world&#39;s second-largest supplier of business management software applications.
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Software company Peoplesoft has formally rejected a takeover bid from rival Oracle for a sixth time. The rejection came after about 61% of shareholders in the California-based business software firm backed Oracle&#39;s $9.2bn (Â£4.9bn) approach.
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Oracle&#39;s acquisition of PeopleSoft will create a bigger competitor for Microsoft and put one of the Redmond company&#39;s largest industry partners in the hands of a rival.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft have once again spurned a takeover bid from Oracle Corp, even after the latter announced it had control of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s shares.
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PeopleSoft will bundle its future business applications with IBM&#39;s infrastructure software as part of a billion-dollar technology and marketing agreement between the two companies.
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PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead with a new marketing alliance with IBM and other initiatives despite a recent court ruling that bolstered Oracle Corp.
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PeopleSoft's board of directors rejected Oracle's &#36;9.2 billion takeover bid Wednesday, thrusting the business software maker's fate in the hands of its shareholders.
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PLEASANTON, California - PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s board yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover bid, continuing its resistance after the company&#39;s own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of their stock to Oracle.
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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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Finally! After 18 months, PeopleSoft Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. for $26.50 a share in cash, or around $10.3 billion, after rebuffing several offers and being taken to court for instituting a controversial takeover defense.