Oracle also filed suit against PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, the application software maker that PeopleSoft has announced plans to acquire. The move is not unexpected; analysts and industry watchers ...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) moved yesterday to block database and application software giant Oracle Corp.'s bid to buy application provider PeopleSoft Inc. The DOJ filed a civil antitrust lawsuit ...

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 ...

As expected, Oracle closed its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft on Friday, putting an end to a rancorous 18-month struggle between the two companies and making PeopleSoft, once the number two ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK – Oracle Corp. (ORCL) on Monday said it asked Peoplesoft Inc.'s (PSFT) board of directors to immediately rescind a "poison pill" anti-takeover provision, two days after 61 percent of ...

Oracle Corp. is making a $5.1 billion bid for enterprise software provider PeopleSoft Inc. in a move to increase earnings and enhance future versions of its eBusiness Suite, the company said today.