PEOPLESOFT $9.2B BID IS &#39;BEST, FINAL&#39;: ORACLE
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison raised his company&#39;s offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 a share, or $9.2 billion, calling the fifth bid over a 17-month takeover battle the &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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Oracle is offering US$21 per share or about US$7.7 billion for PeopleSoft, a leader in human resources management software and an applications rival of Oracle.
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Oracle Corp. on Monday raised its hostile bid for Peoplesoft Inc. to $9.2 billion, a 14 percent increase over its earlier $7.7 billion bid, which it called its &quot;best and final offer&quot; in the 17-month saga.
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Silicon Valley&#39;s longest and most bitter hostile takeover battle is finally at an end after Oracle announced PeopleSoft, its rival business software maker, had accepted an improved purchase offer of $10.3 billion.
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PeopleSoft Inc. said it&#39;s willing to discuss a bid by Oracle Corp. at the ``right&#39;&#39; price, the first time officials have raised the possibility of ending the companies&#39; 16-month takeover fight.
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Oracle proclaimed a symbolic victory Saturday after 61 percent of PeopleSoft stockholders accepted its $9.2 billion takeover offer.
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Oracle Corp. announced on Wednesday the end of an 18-month fight for the takeover of software maker PeopleSoft as 75% of the competitorâs shareholders have agreed to tender their shares to Oracle.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 -- Software maker PeopleSoft Inc. announced Monday that it had agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. in a &#36;10.3 billion deal, ending one of the longest and nastiest takeover battles in recent corporate history.
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Investor's Business Daily - The oracle of Oracle   seems to have pulled another rabbit out of his hat in his quest to buy rival PeopleSoft  . A majority of PeopleSoft shareholders appeared poised Friday to accept Oracle's offer of &#36;24 per share, though two analysts said it would be close. (Oracle planned to reveal results of its tender offer at about midnight, after press time.)
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The investors have spoken and decided that Oracle buying PeopleSoft for $9.2bn in cash sounds like a pretty good deal. More than 60 percent of PeopleSoft investors tendered their shares to Oracle, giving the
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Oracle Corp.&#39;s $9.2 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. neared the finish line early Saturday morning when a majority of stockholders agreed to tender their PeopleSoft shares.
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Oracle made its âbest and finalâ offer of $24 per share of PeopleSoft today (November 1). The all-cash offer values PeopleSoft at $9.
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Oracle chalked up a key victory Friday in its battle to acquire PeopleSoft, with investors agreeing to sell the suitor 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s outstanding shares.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Business-software maker PeopleSoft said Saturday its board had again unanimously rejected Oracle&#39;s $9.2 billion tender offer as inadequate, a day after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares were tendered to Oracle.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors has approved a takeover deal from Oracle worth around $10.3 billion, ending a bitter takeover attemptthat started more than a year ago and creating a major software maker.
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NOVEMBER 01, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Oracle Corp. extended what it called its &quot;best and final offer&quot; for rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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PeopleSoft's Board of Directors voted Wednesday to recommend that its stockholders reject Oracle's takeover offer of $24 per share. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison quickly responded, saying the offer is final and that it is now up to PeopleSoft's shareholders to make a determination.