PeopleSoft: Oracle's Offer Is Inadequate
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Oracle Corp.'s &#36;21-per-share hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. isn't good enough for shareholders to accept, PeopleSoft director A. George "Skip" Battle said Wednesday.
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Oracle has sent an open letter to PeopleSoft stockholders, urging them to accept its $24-er-share bid to buy the company. Oracle charges that PeopleSoft&#39;s board has denied shareholders the
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Oracle's $7.7 billion takeover offer for PeopleSoft has been extended several times already and was set to expire today.
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Business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. on Saturday said its board again rejected Oracle Corp.'s &#36;9.2 billion tender offer, remaining defiant a day after most of its shares were tendered to Oracle.
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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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Defining the word unsurprising, PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors unanimously rejected Oracle&#39;s &quot;best and final&quot; $24 per share offer for the company.
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Oracle Corp. recently learned that PeopleSoft will reject Oracle&#39;s $24.00 a share- its best and final offer. The cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of PeopleSoft, Inc.
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The tender result is a blow to PeopleSoft, which hoped to see Oracle's 17-month takeover campaign end at midnight last night. Oracle had pledged to withdraw its offer if it did not receive backing from a majority of PeopleSoft's shareholders.
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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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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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In the final days before shareholders decide on Oracle's takeover bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft,  PeopleSoft is bracing for the worst. Oracle officials say they won't know until shortly before a  Nov. 19 deadline if a majority of PeopleSoft shareholders support the &#36;8.8 billion offer.
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NEW YORK, November 11  - PeopleSoft Inc (PSFT.NAS) has again rejected Oracle Corporation&#39;s (ORCL) &quot;best and final&quot; takeover bid, while urging its shareholders to reject Oracle&#39;s $24 per share tender offer as well.
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Oracle raised its hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft today to $24 a share from $21 a share. The higher bid, which values Peoplesoft at $9.
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The second and final week of a Delaware court trial relating to Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. turned into an extended negotiating session between the two sides. Oracle executives criticized PeopleSoft's business in an apparent attempt to drive down PeopleSoft's selling price, while PeopleSoft rewrote for the sixth time the controversial "customer assurance program" (CAP) that could significantly increase Oracle's acquisition costs.
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PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors said it rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid Saturday, continuing its staunch resistance a day after the company's own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of stock to Oracle.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid yesterday, thrusting the business software maker's fate into the hands of its shareholders.
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OCTOBER 08, 2004 (REUTERS) - Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison said today that his company has talked about revising its current $21-per-share offer to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc.