Oracle Won't Predict PeopleSoft Acquisition
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Oracle Corp. may have won a major antitrust fight with the Justice Department last week over its proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc., but that doesn't mean the company is on the verge of closing the deal.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2004  - Embattled ERP software vendor PeopleSoft Inc. last week refused to capitulate in its long-running battle with potential purchaser Oracle Corp.
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BRUSSELS The European Commission is expected Tuesday to approve Oracle&#39;s $8 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft without conditions attached, a person briefed on the investigation said Monday.
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Reflecting the uncertainty that has always swirled around Oracle's hostile bid for control of PeopleSoft, two major PeopleSoft shareholders have reached opposite conclusions about how to cast their votes on Oracle's buyout offer.
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If Oracle (Quote, Chart) is buying, PeopleSoft&#39;s Dave Duffield isn&#39;t selling -- at least not at these prices. The founder and new CEO of the Pleasanton, Calif.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft have once again spurned a takeover bid from Oracle Corp, even after the latter announced it had control of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s shares.
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Shortly after announcing its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. last week, Oracle Corp. wasted no time in setting out to win the confidence of former JD Edwards &amp; Co.
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Tuesday denied an analyst report that its executives recently met with Oracle Corp. , the rival software vendor that last year launched a hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Oracle (Quote, Chart) advanced its plans to acquire PeopleSoft Friday after the US Department of Justice said it would not appeal a ruling on an antitrust case that tried to block the merger.
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Oracle's attempt to buy rival software producer Peoplesoft hangs in the balance as investors consider its $9.2bn takeover offer ahead of Saturday's deadline.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- PeopleSoft&#39;s arsenal of takeover defenses isn&#39;t expected to include a big rival to Oracle. Free!
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BEA Systems has told Oracle the two companies can still make a deal -- just not the one on the table.Oracle released a statement Tuesday, saying BEA&#39;s board of directors had officially turned down its offer to buy the company. It set a deadline of Sunday at 5 p.m. Pacific time for BEA to accept the $17-per-share bid.But several hours later, BEA fired back its own missive in the form of a letter from William Klein, who is vice president of planning and development, to Oracle president Charles Phillips. In the letter, Klein characterized Oracle&#39;s offer as too low but made it clear BEA is not against being acquired for the right price.&quot;BEA is worth significantly more than $17 to Oracle, to others, and most importantly to BEA shareholders,&quot; the letter said. &quot;BEA&#39;s Board has not indicated that it would be opposed to a transaction that appropriately reflects BEA&#39;s value, reached through a reasonable process.&quot;An Oracle spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.The total value of Oracle&#39;s existing bid is about $6.7 billion, and the enterprise software giant said Tuesday it &quot;has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA.&quot;So far, the BEA-Oracle talks have sparked dueling public statements, missed meetings, and shareholder angst, but haven&#39;t been nearly as heated as other merger battles, such as&#160;Oracle&#39;s acquisition of PeopleSoft.Still, it remains unclear whether Oracle will increase its offer for BEA, which it termed &quot;generous&quot; in Tuesday&#39;s statement.&quot;Oracle typically has some [pricing] ratios it uses in its acquisition strategy,&quot; Forrester Research analyst Ray Wang said. &quot;If they really want to dominate the middleware space, this is an acquisition they&#39;d want to make.&quot;If it succeeds in buying BEA, Oracle would swallow up a major competitor in the application server space, a scenario that has had some observers wondering about the fate of BEA&#39;s technologies.Oracle&#39;s move to purchase BEA is only the latest in a string of high-profile buys in 2007. The company has forked over billions for a wide array of enterprise software companies, including business process management vendor&#160;Hyperion Solutions&#160;and application data grid player&#160;Tangosol.BEA has some products that would fill holes in Oracle&#39;s portfolio. But the two companies compete closely on other fronts, such as Web server and ESB (enterprise service bus) offerings.&quot;Those are areas with lots of overlap,&quot; Wang said. &quot;But there&#39;s a lot of good technologies on both sides.&quot;NOTE: This story includes comments from analyst Ray Wang that were also used in a previous update.
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SAN FRANCISCO - While it has so far rejected each of Oracle Corp.'s takeover offers, PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors is willing to talk about a deal at the right price, a member of PeopleSoft's board said Tuesday.
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At its user conference yesterday, Oracle continued to send out mixed messages about how it will support PeopleSoft products if it succeeds in its $9.2bn (Â£4.8bn) takeover bid for its rival.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft have once again spurned a takeover bid from Oracle Corp, even after the latter announced it had control of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft's shares.
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An end to the 17-month takeover squabble between software giant Oracle (ORCL ) and rival PeopleSoft (PSFT ) may not be in sight even though, in what Chairman Jeffrey O. Henley called a &quot;best and final&quot; offer, Oracle on Nov.
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PeopleSoft said it could accept a takeover bid from Oracle and now needs time to weigh on it. Oracle has been haunting PeopleSoft for 15 months with the possible bid of $7.