Could IBM-PeopleSoft deal stave off Oracle?
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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - PeopleSoft Inc. is deepening its ties with IBM, announcing yesterday a sales and development partnership it called the most significant enterprise applications alliance in the companies&#39; history.
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Sure, the PeopleSoft board told shareholders to just say no. This battle will go down to the wire, and even afterward Ellison could prevail.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O can  celebrate a ruling by a U.S. judge that it can take over  archrival PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O, but analysts say the  world's second biggest software maker has a battery of other  barriers to overcome before a deal is clinched.
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PeopleSoft may be willing to be bought by Oracle after all--if the price is right. Steven Goldby, a PeopleSoft board member, testified Tuesday in the trial taking place in Delaware that a sale would be possible
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NOVEMBER 01, 2004  - The end may be in sight in the ongoing saga of Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile takeover bid for embattled competitor PeopleSoft Inc.
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PeopleSoft's board might have finally blinked. The business-software maker, facing a 16-month takeover siege from rival Oracle, has canned the CEO who bitterly opposed the deal and lost crucial regulatory support in its bid to stay independent.
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PeopleSoft's board rejects Oracle one last time. Or does it?
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Much has been said about the impact Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) acquisition of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is likely to have on the enterprise software market. The U.S. Justice Department thought it would have an adverse effect, creating a de facto monopoly. A federal judge thought otherwise, though, as did the European Commission.
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Will Sun's $1 billion buyout of open source database vendor SQL drive down pricing on enterprise databases from IBM, Microsoft of Oracle?
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BOLSTERED by investors, Oracle appears set to complete its long-sought takeover of PeopleSoft, unless its rival proves it is worth more than the $US9.2 billion ($11.7 billion) bid currently on the table.
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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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With Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) $24-a-share offer for PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) set to expire late Friday night, the database giant has thrown cold water on the notion that the price could go higher.
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As the threat of a hostile takeover by Oracle rumbles on, PeopleSoft has announced a $1bn partnership with IBM. Speaking at PeopleSoft&#39;s user conference in San Francisco yesterday, the company&#39;s chief executive
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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison&#39;s $8.8 billion hostile bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. may benefit from arbitragers who have loaded up on the stock and are likely to tender their shares.
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It looks like Oracle/PeopleSoft is a done deal. But why would Larry Ellison spend $10.3 billion for overlapping technology? For me, the answer comes in two parts.
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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison probably won enough support among PeopleSoft Inc. investors to press on with his 17-month fight to buy the business- management software company.