When Ray Lane talks about software, people naturally listen--closely. Lane, formerly Oracle's president and chief operating officer, is widely credited as the architect who saved the database maker ...

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Oracle may be pressing on with a nearly three-month-old unfriendly quest to buy PeopleSoft, but to PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway, Oracle's bid is all but dead. "I truly believe--and I'm not being a ...

Outside of Arnold Schwarzenegger's unexpected bid to become California's next governor, Oracle's similarly unexpected bid for rival PeopleSoft has provided Silicon Valley some of the most riveting ...

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – As Oracle and PeopleSoft continue wrangling in regulatory and legal venues over Oracle’s attempted hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, some customers attending this week’s PeopleSoft ...

Comparison of industry analyst responses to the latest development in the Oracle vs. PeopleSoft saga shows consensus skewing toward takeover success, but planning for uncertainty is their best advice.

Oracle Corp. 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 own merger ...

Oracle Corp. opened its legal attack on PeopleSoft Inc.'s takeover defenses Monday with charges that ousted chief executive Craig Conway lied to Wall Street analysts about the effect of Oracle's ...

The wrangling between PeopleSoft and Oracle has once again gone to the dogs. Seventeen months ago, when Oracle’s bid for a hostile takeover of its rival first caused the bitter war of words between ...

PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway said it was time to get back to work. "This process is at an end," Conway said in an afternoon conference call with financial analysts. "The board reaffirmed its unanimous ...

It was only a couple of years ago that Larry Ellison, the charismatic CEO of Oracle Corp., was urging the dogs of antitrust to chase down Bill Gates and Microsoft. How things have changed. Somewhere ...