Investor reaction was mixed Tuesday a day after Oracle said it might have to drop its $7.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft over the enterprise software company’s licensing/rebate plans. On a light trading day Tuesday due to the Veteran’s Day…
Officials at TeaLeaf Technology, the only SAP spinoff, released RealiTea for businesses that want to track down Web site failures at the source. According to Geoff Galat, TeaLeaf vice president of product and marketing, said companies today need to focus…
For the past couple months, most of the coverage of PeopleSoft , has been about the highly-publicized attempts of arch-rival Oracle to take over the enterprise software company. But for the next few days, PeopleSoft has the chance to draw…
PeopleSoft surprised the industry Wednesday when it said preliminary results for the second quarter beat the average Wall Street estimates of earnings-per-share by one to two pennies — all in the face of a hostile takeover bid from rival Oracle…
Database software maker Oracle Tuesday said it will delay its legal fight with PeopleSoft after an inquiry by the federal government this week. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based firm said it has mutually agreed with the other parties in the Delaware…
NEW YORK — PeopleSoft Chief Executive Officer Craig Conway Thursday said his company will guide the market for enterprise applications into a new era where business software is Web-based and automated, and middleware will be rendered nearly obsolete. Conway spoke…
Besieged by a hostile $5.1 billion takeover bid by Oracle last week, PeopleSoft late Tuesday cancelled its plan to seek a temporary restraining order to slow Oracle’s advances. Oracle said Pleasanton, Calif.’s PeopleSoft had advised it June 9 that it…
In a hostile takeover bid that could reverberate across the software industry, database giant Oracle offered to purchase all outstanding shares of enterprise application company PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash. The bid comes just days after PeopleSoft moved to…
The first phase of Microsoft’s ‘Jupiter’ e-business Web services suite went to beta Monday bearing the new designation BizTalk Server 2004. Described by Microsoft as the first major milestone in “delivering an integrated, interoperable, modularized, extensible, and secure e-business solution…
PeopleSoft Monday agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion in stock, a move that shakes up the market for business applications software. The deal makes PeopleSoft the second-largest business software provider to Germany-based leader SAP as PeopleSoft…
