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 ...

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker received a technology tutorial Friday, in preparation to hear the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Oracle next month. Walker will weigh whether ...

To help customers achieve greater value from Oracle's PeopleSoft applications, Oracle today announced a new release of Oracle's PeopleSoft PeopleTools. PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.53 continues Oracle's ...

In the first hostile takeover of a software company since IBM bought Lotus Development in 1995, Oracle will attempt to buy rival PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash. For PeopleSoft customers, it means ...

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, ...

PeopleSoft has failed to persuade a court to fully open up Oracle e-mail and documents relating to Oracle's hostile takeover bid for its business software rival. The lawsuit was initially filed in ...

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Ending 18 months of bad blood, Oracle Corp. raised its takeover bid for bitter rival PeopleSoft Inc. by 10 percent to seal a $10.3 billion deal that will create the world’s second largest maker of ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Oracle mounted a $5.1 billion hostile takeover bid Friday for business software rival PeopleSoft that the target's chief executive angrily rebuffed as a blatant attempt to derail his ...

Oracle Corp. sweetened its hostile bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. to $9.2 billion Monday, a 14 percent increase aimed at resolving the long-running takeover battle between the ...