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  • EU set to decide on Oracle next week

    European antitrust regulators are set to announce Tuesday whether they will block Oracle's hostile takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft.

  • Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech

    Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a licence related to data storage technology.

  • PeopleSoft papers detail cost of Oracle bid

    PeopleSoft offered a glimpse at the price of blocking Oracle's hostile takeover bid in a regulatory filing Monday.

  • EC regulators delay Oracle decision

    European antitrust regulators late Wednesday were forced to push back the deadline for a decision on Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, after Oracle missed a deadline to supply new market information.

  • Oracle president backpedals on 'oligopoly' report

    In a government deposition, Oracle President Charles Phillips downplayed the relevance of a report he issued in his previous job as Morgan Stanley analyst, in which he declared that SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft comprised an oligopoly for back-office business applications.

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  • Coalition of the unwilling

    The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.

  • Survival of software's fittest

    In the flat enterprise software market, the message is clear: It's time to hunt or be hunted.

  • What's next for Oracle

    The US Justice Department charges have been rejected, making way for Oracle's US$7.7 billion PeopleSoft merger. What does the future hold? Additional reading: New twist in software licensing

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