Oracle Refreshes PeopleSoft Offer
While it waits for a federal court to rule on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle is keeping…
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Closing Arguments Expected in Oracle Trial
A federal judge is expected to hear closing arguments Tuesday in the government’s antitrust case against Oracle .…
SAP Strikes Back
You have to give SAP credit: It doesn’t get mad, it gets even. Scarcely four months after IBM…
PeopleSoft Forecasts Earnings Dip
PeopleSoft warned that it will miss second-quarter financial targets, citing the strain of fighting off Oracle’s hostile takeover…
More Mega Mergers if Oracle Succeeds
SAN FRANCISCO — If Oracle succeeds in its quest to buy PeopleSoft , analysts surveyed by internetnews.com said…
NetSuite Adds New E-Commerce Features
NetSuite, a Web-based application provider, recently announced two new modules designed to further enhance its e-commerce capabilities and…
Oracle, NetSuite End Small Business Agreement
Business software service provider NetSuite has ended its 3-year licensing agreement with Oracle, under which NetSuite had been…
Rdb Acquisition Taboo in DoJ v. Oracle Case
Oracle will not be able to use some of its previous acquisition experience in court as it argues…
NetSuite Beefs Up ERP Functions
Software service provider NetSuite on Thursday unveiled the latest features to be included in the next major release…
PeopleSoft: Thumbs Down to Reduced Offer
PeopleSoft has reached a blanket agreement with disgruntled shareholders who had filed class-action lawsuits in protest of the…
Oracle, PeopleSoft CEOs File Depositions
SAN FRANCISCO — The chief executive officers of Oracle and PeopleSoft will answer questions about the controversial hostile…
ERP Vendors Debate Customer Loyalties
A handful of large and mid-tier software vendors are rumbling about what customers really want as the enterprise…
NetSuite’s 99.5 Percent Solution
NetSuite was providing Web-based applications when it wasn’t cool. The San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of a turnkey e-commerce,…
Out From Oracle’s Shadow: NetSuite
Ten minutes on the phone. That’s all it took one day in 1998 for NetSuite (formerly NetLedger) founder…
PeopleSoft Re-elects Incumbent Board Members
PeopleSoft shareholders selected incumbent members for the company’s board of directors in a resounding vote, formally shutting out…
NetSuite Expands UK Operations
Small business ASP NetSuite on Thursday announced the expansion of its UK operations, expanding both its direct and…
PeopleSoft CAP Could Cost Oracle $1.56B
PeopleSoft’s customer assurance program (CAP) could tack on an additional $1.56 billion to Oracle’s current $9.4 billion offer…
NetSuite 9.5 Adds Billing, Analytics and Communications Features
Business software service provider NetSuite on Wednesday released NetSuite 9.5, adding advanced billing, analytics, and communications features to…
Oracle to ‘Vigorously Challenge’ DOJ for PeopleSoft
Oracle has vowed to “vigorously challenge” the Department of Justice’s decision to block the software maker’s attempt to…
DoJ to Block Oracle’s PeopleSoft Bid
UPDATE:The Department of Justice has dealt a blow to Oracle’s $9.4 billion hostile bid to purchase rival software…
PeopleSoft: Just Say No to Oracle
In what has become serve-and-volley battle to win the influential stockholders, PeopleSoft Monday begun mailing proxy materials for…
Oracle Lobbies PeopleSoft Shareholders
Oracle moved to spark interest in its latest $9.4 billion offer for rival PeopleSoft by sending a letter…
DOJ Staff Pans Oracle/PeopleSoft Takeover
Antitrust lawyers of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recommended against Oracle’s $9.4 billion takeover attempt of rival…
Oracle Offers $9.4 Billion for PeopleSoft
Oracle has ratcheted up its pressure on rival applications maker PeopleSoft by raising its cash buyout offer to…
Oracle Comes Full Circle in Enterprise
In his keynote speech at Oracle Appsworld on Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison talked a lot about data —…
NetSuite Adds Business Insight by the Dashboard Light
Do business owners and executives know more about what’s going on in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. than they…
EC Halts Oracle/PeopleSoft Inquiry
Oracle will wait longer than expected to hear whether its bid for PeopleSoft is acceptable. The European Commission…
NetSuite Adds Customization Features
NetSuite, maker of Oracle’s Small Business Suite, this week countered a common criticism of hosted applications by launching…
Oracle, PeopleSoft Slide on Fate of Takeover
Investor reaction was mixed Tuesday a day after Oracle said it might have to drop its $7.3 billion…
NetSuite Debuts Down Under
Continuing a global expansion that began earlier this month in the UK, NetSuite Inc. on Tuesday brought its…
NetSuite Arrives in UK
NetSuite Inc on Thursday set up shop in the United Kingdom, unveiling localized versions of its NetSuite and…
PeopleSoft Showcases New Tools, Integration Plans
For the past couple months, most of the coverage of PeopleSoft , has been about the highly-publicized attempts…
Siemens, Synopsys Join NetWeaver Web
Officials at software giant SAP opened their 8th annual Tech Education conference in Las Vegas with the announcement…
PeopleSoft Beats Estimates in Early 2Q Results
PeopleSoft surprised the industry Wednesday when it said preliminary results for the second quarter beat the average Wall…
Oracle Postpones PeopleSoft Lawsuit
Database software maker Oracle Tuesday said it will delay its legal fight with PeopleSoft after an inquiry by…
Surebridge Expands On-Demand Services For Mid-Market
Application outsourcer Surebridge Inc. Monday refined its ERP, CRM and eBusiness Outsourcing offerings to include three models of…
HP, NetLedger in New Pay-as-you-go Alliance
Call it on-demand computing services packaged for the smaller business set. Computer systems vendor Hewlett-Packard has struck a…
CeBIT: PeopleSoft CEO Avoids the ‘O’ Word
NEW YORK — PeopleSoft Chief Executive Officer Craig Conway Thursday said his company will guide the market for…
PeopleSoft Pushes to Close J.D. Edwards Deal
Despite Oracle’s sweetened offer to acquire PeopleSoft , the enterprise application vendor is pushing to close its $1.75…
NetLedger Offers Commissions
NetLedger, a San Mateo, Calif.-based ASP, today announced Sales Compensation Manager, a Web-based service designed to allow mid-sized…
SAP Rolls Out Updates at Sapphire
In a bid to turn the spotlight from its competitors and onto its products, enterprise software provider SAP…
PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards Try to Speed Merger
PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards Monday have amended their merger agreement to speed up the deal in the wake…
JD Edwards Sues; PeopleSoft Spurns Oracle
J.D. Edwards filed a $1.7 billion suit against Oracle and its two top executives in state courts in…
PeopleSoft Cans Court Action Vs. Oracle
Besieged by a hostile $5.1 billion takeover bid by Oracle last week, PeopleSoft late Tuesday cancelled its plan…
Oracle Offers to Buy PeopleSoft for $5.1 Billion
In a hostile takeover bid that could reverberate across the software industry, database giant Oracle offered to purchase…
PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards Facing Challenges
When PeopleSoft moved to acquire rival J.D. Edwards Monday, it marked the latest in a series of mergers…
Merger Creates Business Software Giant
PeopleSoft Monday agreed to buy J.D. Edwards & Co. for $1.7 billion in stock, a move that shakes…
PeopleSoft’s Latest Gambits Make Sense, Unfortunately
This year’s award for the most obvious marketing campaign goes to PeopleSoft for its new Total Ownership Experience…
NetLedger Goes Online Down Under
NetLedger Inc., an ASP that offers Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, today…
SAP Business One Ready To Serve U.S. Small Businesses
SAP’s Business One solution made its U.S. debut this week, designed to extend the company’s software expertise to…