PeopleSoft on Friday announced that investors have tendered 88 percent of J.D. Edwards shares, but closure of the US$1.8 billion merger will be delayed by a month.
SAP announced Monday its third-party support and maintenance company TomorrowNow, which is embroiled in a legal battle with archrival Oracle, may be put up for sale.
Australia's competition regulators are this week combing through a United States court ruling that clears the way for Oracle to pursue a US$7.7 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft.
Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons.
PeopleSoft may be willing to be bought by Oracle, after all--if the price is right.
OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.
Oracle CEO provides details on embattled PeopleSoft merger.
As early as spring last year, Oracle considered Lawson Software and J.D. Edwards as acquisition targets, according to a videotaped deposition of Oracle's chief financial officer.
Fuelled by Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems, Silicon Valley once again asks itself if megamergers are good for the industry.
Veritas Chief Executive Gary Bloom took pains to explain why he believes his company's acquisition by Symantec makes sense.
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