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After the mega-merger: Siebel staff face post-Oracle cuts
News WR Hambrecht's Stimson not only anticipated layoffs in the Siebel camp but also among employees of the former PeopleSoft and JD Edwards companies, two enterprise applications vendors that Oracle acquired last year. [09 Feb 2006]
Oracle mulls support for rival databases
News These also include business software makers ProfitLogic and Retek, and also JD Edwards, which PeopleSoft had bought before it, in turn, was purchased by Oracle. The software maker had previously told JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customers that it... [20 Sep 2005]
Oracle-Siebel mega-merger: What the analysts say...
News PeopleSoft had just acquired JD Edwards, and that made it more complex. Oracle's mega-merger with Siebel Systems received mixed reviews on Monday from analysts, customers and partners but there were few concerns about the companies' ability to... [13 Sep 2005]
Ellison tells all about PeopleSoft saga
News We intend to enhance JD Edwards 5 and develop an all-new version of the JD Edwards product line, JD Edwards 6. We also intend to design and merge the PeopleSoft/JD Edwards and Oracle application suite with the features necessary to enable easy... [14 Dec 2004]
Sold! PeopleSoft goes to Oracle for $10bn
News The company also indicated that it intends to provide a lifeline for companies using software from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, which PeopleSoft itself acquired during the course of its 18-month battle with Oracle. [13 Dec 2004]
Tech acquisitions hit dot-com boom levels
News Whilst the headlines are being made by the big fish - JD Edwards, Peoplesoft and Oracle - it's business as usual for much of the rest of the market," Rowell said in a statement. The monthly tracker of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across 10... [02 Aug 2004]
Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition
News Walker asked him why Oracle preferred to buy PeopleSoft over JD Edwards. Oracle decided to launch an unsolicited bid for the company nearly a year later - in June 2003 -when Conway moved to buy rival JD Edwards. [01 Jul 2004]
PeopleSoft and Oracle had previously talked merger
News Oracle's analysis assumed that PeopleSoft would complete its acquisition of rival JD Edwards, a deal announced a few days before Oracle launched its hostile bid for PeopleSoft and completed last autumn. [28 Jun 2004]
PeopleSoft's licences take a drop
News With last week's filing, PeopleSoft reported for the first time that its purchase last year of JD Edwards contributed $114.9m in licence fees to its 2003 revenue. Previously, the company had lumped revenue from JD Edwards and the rest of its... [10 Mar 2004]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: The winners and losers
Comment PeopleSoft had just made its move for smaller rival JD Edwards and Larry Ellison's team clearly thought it was time to get a better grip on an enterprise-applications market that it has let slip recently, certainly in comparison to its mainstay... [27 Feb 2004]
JD Edwards users happy with PeopleSoft
News A survey IDC released Monday showed that more than 80 per cent of JD Edwards software users retain a positive view of PeopleSoft and the manner in which the company handled the merger. PeopleSoft is earning guarded praise from customers of its... [06 Jan 2004]
Ellison still 'determined' to acquire PeopleSoft
News With Wall Street optimism building over PeopleSoft's merger with JD Edwards, PeopleSoft's shares closed at $18.82 Tuesday. Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has repeated his determination to acquire rival PeopleSoft, but was cagey about whether... [10 Sep 2003]
PeopleSoft boss: Oracle saga is over
News As far as Conway is concerned, Oracle lost steam in July, after PeopleSoft sealed its $1.8bn purchase of JD Edwards. Conway said the next nail in the coffin of the Oracle bid will come on 4 September, the day he and the rest of PeopleSoft... [28 Aug 2003]
PeopleSoft extends customer refund plan
News It expects to complete the merger by the end of the week by acquiring the remaining 12 per cent of outstanding JD Edwards shares. This quarter, which ends 30 September, the offer will include customers of both PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, a rival... [27 Aug 2003]
PeopleSoft tweaks lawsuit against Oracle
News PeopleSoft management has resisted Oracle's $7.25bn bid, while hastening its own $1.8bn merger agreement with JD Edwards. The amended suit alleges Oracle deliberately tried to mislead PeopleSoft customers about Oracle's plans to support PeopleSoft... [13 Aug 2003]
