Oracle allowed to swallow up smaller rival
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Larry Ellison&#39;s software maker Oracle yesterday got the green light from a US federal judge for its US$7.7 billion takeover of smaller rival PeopleSoft, sending PeopleSoft shares up 15 per cent.
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Oracle Corp. chief Larry Ellison is girding for a showdown with business applications software leader SAP AG and becoming more friendly with frequent rival IBM Corp. as his software company seeks higher profits from its recently completed takeover of PeopleSoft Inc.
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It looks like only relatively minor administrative tasks stand between the two companies becoming one. By TechWeb News. The European Union has approved Oracle&#39;s takeover of PeopleSoft, bringing the deal closer to completion.
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As Oracle Corp. pushes forward with its hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for $7.7 billion, it is also sizing up further acquisition
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On paper, Oracle?s recent $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems looks a lot like the hostile bid for PeopleSoft four years ago ? a bad-for-competition, bad-for-employees, bad-for-customers deal designed with one goal in mind: fatten Oracle shareholders? wallets by taking out a competitor.
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The Motley Fool - It appears that Larry Ellison took to the stage last week with more drama in mind than he had the right to perform. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) really did produce a strong quarter, but the CEO may have been speaking with feet of clay when he came out strongly in regard to rival enterprise-software developer SAP (NYSE: S News). An SAP representative took the time to give me his company's side of the story, to which I've added my own Foolish touch.
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The European Commission approved Oracle&#39;s proposed $7.7 billion hostile takeover of rival software company PeopleSoft on Tuesday, knocking down the last competition hurdle to the deal.
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There's money to be made in mediating others' software rivalries.
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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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Trying to snatch IBM's crown? Comment Oracle and IBM are both competitors and partners. In the case of databases they are certainly rivals, with Oracle 10g and DB2 going head-to-head at many sites. However, it has occurred to me to wonder if Oracle is seeking to rival IBM's crown as the owner of the most different databases.â¦
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Oracle is one step closer to taking over rival PeopleSoft now that a federal judge has ruled against the federal government&#39;s effort to thwart the $7.
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Venture capitalists are lavishing money on the fashionable Linux supercomputing concept--but smaller firms face much larger rivals.
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Oracle&#39;s hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft for $7.7bn (Â£4.3bn) is set to continue for a bit longer.
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After 18 months of heated rhetoric, antitrust judgments and a few billion dollars more, Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile bid for smaller rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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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 &#36;10.3 billion deal that promises to shake up the business software industry.
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Got to circle around those SAP wagons Oracle loves buying companies and it simply can't break/won't break the habit. It's got ambitious growth targets to meet and rivals' market share to take.â¦
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The software giant makes a small acquisition to bolster its moves for unified communications.