PeopleSoft logs profit, rising sales
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PeopleSoft reported a profit and rising revenue Thursday, as the Pleasanton software company sought to steady its footing after several setbacks in its fight against rival Oracle's &#36;7.7 billion hostile takeover bid.
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Oracle Corp.'s quarterly profit surged 21 percent as the business software maker reaped the latest returns from a two-year shopping spree that has knocked out major rivals and shored up its product line.
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PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday forecast third-quarter revenue would exceed Wall Street expectations, helped by an increase in customers making larger orders for its business software.
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Oracle&#39;s stock price rose on Wednesday after the software maker reported that its first-quarter profit surged 16 percent compared to last year, reaching $509 million.
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US software giant Oracle posted higher profits for the past three months, boosted by new business products gained from acquisitions.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Monday forecast third-quarter revenue would exceed Wall Street expectations, saying it added 150 new customers and had more large software license transactions than in the previous quarter.
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Oracle Corp  posted a 35 percent  rise in quarterly profit on higher-than-expected software sales  and issued a strong outlook, easing concerns it may be hurt by  the slowing U.S. economy and pushing its shares up 6.5 percent.
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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison showed his notorious competitive streak Tuesday, when the business software maker reported first-quarter profit jumped 29 percent and revenue soared 30 percent.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Thursday reported a quarterly net profit, after a year-earlier loss, as the company saw stronger sales of its  business software than what it had forecast earlier despite its continued fight to block a takeover from rival Oracle Corp.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Thursday returned to profit in the third quarter from a year earlier with a 12 percent rise in sales that upended market fears that Oracle Corp.'s takeover bid had damaged PeopleSoft's business in the quarter.
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared 38 percent, beating Wall Street expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing.
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Oracle, the world's second largest software producer, saw profits jump 16% to $509m (Â£283m) in the first half of the year on strong sales of its core database products.
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SAN FRANCISCO: PeopleSoft said yesterday it has logged more business business software license revenue in its current fiscal quarter than arch-rival Oracle, which recently got US court approval of its bid to take over PeopleSoft.
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday  that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales  soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are  nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4  percent.
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Oracle Corp. , the world&#39;s third  largest software maker, reported profit that beat Wall Street  expectations on Tuesday and gave a positive growth outlook for  the current quarter that nudged its shares higher.
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Oracle Corp. reported second-quarter 2005 earnings that beat analyst expectations on Monday, thanks to new software revenue and continued gains from license updates and product support.
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PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) said on Monday that quarterly revenues would beat Wall Street's expectations, due to an increase in the number of customers making large orders for its enterprise-application software.