The clock is really ticking on Oracle's $8.8 billion PeopleSoft bid. Oracle plans to drop a suit against PeopleSoft if it fails to convince PeopleSoft shareholders to sell at least half of the company ...

But the fireworks continued right up to the brink. On Thursday, PeopleSoft chairman and CEO Dave Duffield charged in a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison that Oracle reps have misrepresented his sale ...

As Oracle presses on with its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, only a "few" shares have been tendered at this point, Oracle executive Chuck Phillips said Friday. Phillips, an executive vice president, ...

Wookey outlined the formation of an Application Strategy Team that "will not be four to five people sitting in a room thinking high-level strategy. It will be hundreds of PeopleSoft and Oracle ...

Apparently, Oracle has decided that the best way to compete in the enterprise applications space against the likes of SAP is to swallow PeopleSoft, acquiring its customers and scuttling the rest of ...

PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway was in the back of a car heading to a customer site in Holland on June 6 when he got a cell phone call with disturbing news. Database giant Oracle Corp. -- where Conway had ...

|~||~||~|After 18 months of courtroom drama and the ousting of PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway and the return of its co-founder Dave Duffield, the battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft has finally come to ...

Oracle Corp. might have to drop its $7.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. because of the smaller company's latest strategic maneuver, the Redwood City database giant said in an ...

An Oracle-PeopleSoft merger would boost competition in the market for enterprise applications, an SAP America executive testified Wednesday in the U.S. government’s case to block the proposed merger.

Oracle is working on an alternative pricing model for its newly acquired PeopleSoft products, which could mean lower prices for PeopleSoft users. The new pricing model is to be offered in addition to ...