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Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Other recent acquisitions by Oracle include Siebel, JD Edwards and most recently, BEA Systems. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! A year after the initial bid was made the US Federal Trade Commission... [04 Feb 2008]
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]
PeopleSoft admits 'pumping up' results
News Soon after the bid was launched in June 2003, the figure was updated to 94 cents per share - something that PeopleSoft maintains was an honest overestimate of the combined "synergies" from a deal to acquire JD Edwards. [14 Oct 2004]
Microsoft and SAP scared Oracle into attempted acquisition
News 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. Walker asked him why Oracle preferred to buy PeopleSoft over 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 Conway hits out at Ellison's "jealousy"
News Almost one year on from the acquisition of JD Edwards, PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway claims his company is still on course to topple SAP from its number one position in the enterprise applications market. [22 Jun 2004]
Oracle trial judge frustrated by "market definition"
News They included a former executive at JD Edwards, which PeopleSoft acquired just as Oracle launched its surprise bid, and a senior VP at systems integrator BearingPoint. Richard Allen, former CFO for JD Edwards, described the mid-tier market as being... [11 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]
JD Edwards users happy with PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft is earning guarded praise from customers of its latest acquisition, former rival JD Edwards. 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... [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 confirms job cuts and roadmap
News The company has so far fended off Oracle's hostile bid, which the database giant launched the same week PeopleSoft agreed to purchase JD Edwards. PeopleSoft has confirmed its intention to lay off up to 1,000 workers while keeping the JD Edwards... [05 Sep 2003]
PeopleSoft boss: Oracle saga is over
News 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 management are scheduled to present their integration plan with JD Edwards to Wall Street. [28 Aug 2003]
PeopleSoft extends customer refund plan
News This quarter, which ends 30 September, the offer will include customers of both PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, a rival company PeopleSoft recently bought. In the meantime, PeopleSoft folded in JD Edwards as a wholly owned subsidiary last month. [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]
Authorities to quiz 1,000 over PeopleSoft bid
News Questions posed to customers range from why they have chosen to use PeopleSoft, Oracle or JD Edwards software to what steps they would take in altering their IT plans should Oracle acquire PeopleSoft. [12 Aug 2003]
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