Reaction To The PeopleSoft/Oracle Merger
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When Internet-based companies, especially ones the size of Oracle and PeopleSoft, announce fundamental changes, responses are usually swift.
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The Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover battle may have finally entered its endgame, with Oracle Corp upping its bid and for the first time imposing a deadline for PeopleSoft Inc shareholders to accept it.
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DECEMBER 15, 2004  - For the first time since closing a deal to purchase rival PeopleSoft Inc. for $13.3 billion, Oracle Corp.
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About $10.3 billion, not to put too fine a point on it. Rather than swallowing the &quot;poison pill&quot; planned for hostile takeover bids, though, Oracle agreed to come up in its bid for PeopleSoft--$26.50 per share instead of $24 per share.
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Ellison&#39;s revenge. Redux. After waging acquisition war on takeover target PeopleSoft for 16 months, software giant Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) may add insult to what some perceive as injury, again.
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S&amp;P Equity Research maintained ratings for PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ) and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ). On Saturday, 61% of PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their stock in favor of Oracle&#39;s offer of $24 a share for the company.
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PC Magazine - News Analysis: PeopleSoft customers raise questions about Oracle's service quality.
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InfoWorld - The great debate over the impact of Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft has all the big industry analyst organizations weighing in. However, in most of the analysis one group's opinion seems to have been overlooked: that of PeopleSoft users.
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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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Finally! After 18 months, PeopleSoft Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp. for $26.50 a share in cash, or around $10.3 billion, after rebuffing several offers and being taken to court for instituting a controversial takeover defense.
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Two major PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders yesterday indicated they would split their votes on whether to accept Oracle Corp's $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid.
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PeopleSoft agreed today to be bought by Oracle for $10.3 billion, or $26.50 a share, ending a bitter 18-month acquisition battle. PeopleSoft&#39;s price was 10 percent above what Oracle previously called its &quot;best and final&quot; offer of $24 a share.
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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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PeopleSoft Inc. capitulated to Oracle Corp., accepting a sweetened $10.3 billion takeover offer to end an 18-month battle that pitted PeopleSoft against its investors and led to the ouster of its chief executive.
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By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York. PeopleSoft succumbed to a sweetened $10.3bn (Â£5.22bn) takeover offer from Oracle yesterday, putting an end to a bitter 18- month battle that
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Investors bet that now that PeopleSoft has fired Conway, the way is paved for a friendly deal. That was how most Wall Street analysts summed up Oracle&#39;s chances of finally acquiring rival software maker PeopleSoft
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Can you feel the love? Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) Chief Executive Larry Ellison said again yesterday that that he intends to prevail in his takeover of PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people