PeopleSoft Posts Profit
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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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Robust software sales pushed Oracle&#39;s second-quarter net income up 35 percent compared to the same period last year, to $1.3 billion, or $0.25 per share, the company said Wednesday.Total revenue grew by 28 percent to $5.3 billion, Oracle said.Excluding one-time charges, Oracle&#39;s reported earnings per share were $0.31, beating forecasts of $0.27 per share from analysts polled by Thomson Financial.Oracle logged major gains in new license revenue for applications, which rose by 63 percent, and in database and middleware products, which logged a 28 percent increase. The company saw services-based revenue grow by 22 percent to $1.2 billion over last year.(More to follow.)
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.  ORCL.O on Monday posted a higher quarterly profit on firm  demand for its market-leading database software.
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PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday said it expects quarterly revenue to beat Wall Street estimates, bolstering its case to remain independent, and its shares fell 2 percent.
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BUSINESS software maker Oracle&#39;s quarterly earnings just exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in applications the company hopes to remedy through its takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.
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Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , in its first earnings report as a publicly held company, on Thursday posted a profit of $52.
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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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Oracle Corp.  posted  higher quarterly profit on Thursday on stronger-than-expected  new software license revenue and said it was taking share from  major rivals SAP AG  and IBM
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Billion dollar printer profit steadies the ship
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday   posted a higher quarterly profit, helped by   stronger-than-expected new software license revenue.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O, the  world's biggest database software company, on Wednesday  forecast profits at the high end of Wall Street estimates,  aided by subscriber growth tied to its $10.3 billion  acquisition of PeopleSoft.
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Oracle Corp.  on Monday posted a 21 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by sales of business software licenses to the customers of acquired rivals like Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft.
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Colgate-Palmolive Co  on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit, helped by strength in emerging markets and improved margins and savings from cost-cutting measures.
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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 reported a profit and rising revenue Thursday, as the Pleasanton software company sought to steady its footing after several setbacks in its fight against rival Oracle's &#36;7.7 billion hostile takeover bid.
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Oracle Corp , the world&#39;s  third-largest software maker, reported a 25 percent rise in  quarterly profit on Thursday, but forecast slower growth in  sales of new software in the current quarter.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's second-largest business software maker, on Wednesday forecast 2005 and 2006 earnings above Wall Street estimates, helped by its &#36;10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft.