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RSS jd edwards bidPeopleSoft battle - JD Edwards comes out fighting
News Bob Dutkowsky, chairman and CEO of JD Edwards, pulled no punches today as he laid into Larry Ellison and Oracle and their move for PeopleSoft, the company that has itself bid for... [09 Jun 2003]
PeopleSoft sweetens the pot with cash for JD Edwards
News PeopleSoft has come up with some cash to sweeten its bid for JD Edwards, speed up the deal and fend off Oracle's unwanted bid. PeopleSoft and JD... [17 Jun 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Tell me something good about Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards
Comment So you would think that before now, or at least before last Monday when PeopleSoft and JD Edwards announced their marriage, someone would have been brave enough to kick off consolidation. In short,... [11 Jun 2003]
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... [06 Jan 2004]
PeopleSoft and JD Edwards deal gets green light
News PeopleSoft's $1.7bn acquisition of JD Edwards has been given the green light by federal regulators, who have ruled the merger is not anticompetitive, in a move that looks set to frustrate Oracle's... [15 Jul 2003]
Oracle pledges JD Edwards support
News Oracle, which launched its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft last month just days after PeopleSoft announced a deal to acquire JD Edwards, has promised to maintain PeopleSoft... [18 Jul 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... [05 Sep 2003]
Conway focuses on business app benefits - not Ellison
News He also spoke about the potential benefits of PeopleSoft's $1.7bn bid to acquire software maker JD Edwards. This led Oracle to up its bid and to file suit against... [20 Jun 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... [13 Aug 2003]
Ellison says Oracle can wait for PeopleSoft prey
News With the feds having issued a second request for information, and the time delay that was created along with the added complication of PeopleSoft merging with JD Edwards, it's unlikely that Oracle will... [16 Jul 2003]
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... [01 Jul 2004]
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... [27 Aug 2003]
Oracle faces antitrust investigation
News Meanwhile, the company is hoping to wrap up its acquisition of JD Edwards in mid-July. PeopleSoft found itself a buyout target of Oracle a couple days after it announced plans earlier this month to buy... [01 Jul 2003]
Little chance of a white knight for PeopleSoft
News Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft has prompted speculation that another major software maker could step in with an offer more palatable to PeopleSoft shareholders and executives, who are in the midst of their... [14 Jul 2003]
What a week for enterprise software - and PDAs, 3G...
Comment When, on Monday, silicon.com wrote of the PeopleSoft-JD Edwards deal "Expect more of it" we never thought it likely we'd be getting "more of it" quite so soon. It clearly sees parts of that business as... [06 Jun 2003]
