SAP the Loser in PeopleSoft Maneuvers
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While all eyes are focused on PeopleSoft's (Nasdaq: PSFT) firing of Craig Conway, the ground may be shifting under other enterprise-software vendors. The recently announced PeopleSoft-IBM partnership will spell bad news for SAP (NYSE: SAP), the Yankee Group predicts.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s board ousted Craig Conway as CEO after he made a misleading statement about the company&#39;s ability to recruit customers while fending off Oracle&#39;s $7.
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Oracle may yet prevail, but not because its target is surrendering. Digging in for a long fight is more likely. When PeopleSoft&#39;s board of directors fired Chief Executive Craig Conway on Oct. 1, Wall Street
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TO the casual observer, Oracle v. PeopleSoft, the case unfolding in Delaware Chancery Court, is just the latest round in an ugly and long takeover fight between two software giants.
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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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German business software giant SAP  SAPG.DE is starting to see the silver lining in a potential  linkup between rivals Oracle ORCL.O and PeopleSoft PSFT.O,  the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported.
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On paper, Oracle?s recent $6.7 billion offer for BEA Systems looks a lot like the hostile bid for PeopleSoft four years ago ? a bad-for-competition, bad-for-employees, bad-for-customers deal designed with one goal in mind: fatten Oracle shareholders? wallets by taking out a competitor.
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Oracle is now OracleSoft, and that means SAP will soon have some real competition on its hands. Oracle&#39;s recent monster user conference, the first that united its technology, database and
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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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A Register History The tale of Oracle&#39;s attempt to buy Peoplesoft is a story of Larry Ellison&#39;s relentless pursuit of his target in the face of implacable hostility from the PeopleSoft board.
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Last week&#39;s news that Oracle will buy PeopleSoft for a small premium over Oracle&#39;s most recent offer was almost the ultimate in anticlimaxes.
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Strength in the software giant&#39;s mainstay product powered a healthy quarter. Weakness elsewhere shows why PeopleSoft is a target.
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SAP (NYSE: SAP) has ratcheted up its wooing of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) and JD Edwards customers with its acquisition of TomorrowNow, a provider of maintenance and other support for enterprise applications, including PeopleSoft and JD Edwards suites.
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SAP AG has benefited from the market uncertainty created by the long battle between Oracle Corp. and Peoplesoft Inc. Now that the battle is over, the dominant business applications maker doesn&#39;t see the good times ending.
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Opinion I thought it was a joke when Oracle first announced that it was going to try to buy PeopleSoft; or, at best, a spoiling tactic over PeopleSoft&#39;s acquisition of JD Edwards.
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Here's how to ride out the inevitable drops your stocks will take
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Spooked by souring market sentiment and months of internecine verbal jousting, PeopleSoft has adopted a conciliatory line to shareholders that it will not sell them short and is willing to wait until Oracle Corporation&#39;s unsolicited offer hits the right