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Oracle has lowered the amount of the credit line it can tap to acquire PeopleSoft from US$5 billion to US$1.5 billion, an Oracle spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Oracle overnight revealed it planned to acquire Primavera Software, a maker of project management software.
The Australian government's approach to information management has previously often been "grandiose" and overly simplistic, according to Oracle's Australian division, which today mainly backed comments by finance minister Lindsay Tanner that the government needed to adopt Web 2.0-style tools.
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