PeopleSoft Raises Revenue Forecasts
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PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O, fresh from  firing its chief executive amid a hostile takeover bid from  Oracle Corp. ORCL.O, on Monday said quarterly revenue would  exceed Wall Street's expectations, helped by an increase in  customers making larger orders for its business software.
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NEW YORK: PeopleSoft Inc, fresh from firing its chief executive amid a hostile takeover bid from Oracle Corp, said yesterday that quarterly revenue would exceed Wall Street&#39;s expectations helped by an increase in customers making larger orders for its
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PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O on Monday  forecast third-quarter revenue would exceed Wall Street  expectations, saying it added 150 new customers and had more  large software license transactions than in the previous  quarter.
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With third quarter revenues of $161 million, strong earnings per share, healthy cash flow and robust projections to back them up, PeopleSoft&#39;s directors are advising shareholders that Oracle&#39;s
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Peoplesoft, the software maker that is the target of a hostile takeover bid from industry heavyweight Oracle, returns to profit in the third quarter.
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PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O on  Thursday reported a quarterly net profit, after a year-earlier  loss, due to stronger sales of its business software than it  had expected.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O posted a   quarterly profit on Tuesday that topped Wall Street estimates   as new business software license revenue rose, sending its   shares up 13 percent to their highest in four years.
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PEOPLESOFT has strengthened its ties with technology giant IBM hoping to boost its recently sagging sales as it continues to fight Oracle&#39;s $US7.
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Shares of PeopleSoft Inc.  traded near a one-year high on Thursday after analysts raised their earnings outlooks for the business software maker, which continues to fight a &#36;9.2 billion hostile takeover bid by Oracle Corp. .
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Oracle yesterday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival software company PeopleSoft by 14%, to $8.8bn (Â£4.37bn), and for the first time set a deadline for acceptance of the bid.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Thursday returned to profit in the third quarter from a year earlier with a 12 percent rise in sales that upended market fears that Oracle Corp.'s takeover bid had damaged PeopleSoft's business in the quarter.
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Photon Dynamics Inc. PHTN.O, shares  rose after the closing bell, when the company raised its  quarterly revenue forecast, citing a higher proportion of sales  of repair systems.
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PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead with a new marketing alliance and other initiatives in the face of a court ruling that raises the chance that Oracle Corp.'s &#36;7.7-billion hostile takeover bid could succeed, PeopleSoft's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Oracle Corp. reported revenue and earnings growth in its first fiscal quarter, with its revenue from new software licenses rising 7 percent, to US$563 million.
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PeopleSoft Inc., which is fighting a takeover bid from Oracle Corp., said revenue from new software licenses this quarter has exceeded Oracle&#39;s sales of the same kind of products in its most-recent period.
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PeopleSoft Inc. posted a third-quarter profit and said sales beat analysts&#39; estimates, a turnaround that may encourage Oracle Corp.
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Oracle logged major gains in new license revenue for applications, which rose by 63%, and for database and middleware products, which saw a 28% increase.