John Pallatto

Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of the Pleasanton, Calif., producer of enterprise application software. Oracle made the announcement after the initial offering period for Oracles $26.50 tender offer for all PeopleSoft shares expired at midnight EST Tuesday. […]

PeopleSoft Inc. founder David Duffield, who replaced fired CEO Craig Conway in October, quietly resigned effective Dec. 21, less than two weeks before Oracle Corp. is scheduled to close its buyout of its software-industry rival. Oracle declared on Wednesday that it had received offers of more than enough shares to take control of PeopleSoft. Duffields […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday disclosed that it will not ship—as a separate product—its Exchange Edge Services, a set of e-mail security and anti-spam enhancements for Exchange Server. In May, Microsoft said it would roll out Exchange Edge Services in 2005. The package was expected to provide support for identification standards, such as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), […]

Its time for PeopleSoft customers and employees to start thinking about the future and about protecting their own interests, because nobody else is going to be watching out for them. Benevolent or paternalistic arent words that have ever been seriously associated with Oracle or with its founder and CEO, Larry Ellison. Business is business, and […]

Siebel Systems Inc. will be a stronger competitor against both Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com as a result of its acquisition Friday of online billing software maker Edocs Inc., according to industry analysts. Siebel acquired the privately held Edocs of Natick, Mass., for $115 million in cash to strengthen its offerings in the field of e-billing […]

IBM has made progress over the past year in developing a new water-cooled, modular mass storage system designed to be highly fault-tolerant and make more efficient use of electric power and cooling capacity. Called CIB (Collective Intelligent Bricks), the storage system is under development at IBMs Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. IBM officials […]

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” Thats one of the better known bon mots from the late Everett Dirksen, the famously puckish U.S. senator, when he was talking about the federal government budget deficits in the 1960s. Well it took a billion more here and there before […]

Customers on Monday expressed relief more than dismay that Oracle Corp. had finally reached a definitive buyout agreement with PeopleSoft Inc., giving them hope that they will get reliable information about future product support. PeopleSofts fate was of particular concern to users of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software from J.D. Edwards & Co., which PeopleSoft […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. topped off a torrent of product announcements during its OpenWorld customer conference this week with the introduction of its Collaboration Suite 10g, which is designed as a universal corporate information and content management platform. Formerly code-named Tsunami, the Collaboration Suite is built on the Oracle relational database version 10g and the Oracle […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp. will complete development and ship the next version of PeopleSofts flagship enterprise applications even if it ultimately succeeds in buying out its competitor. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison voiced the commitment to complete the PeopleSoft 9 product line, which is still under development, in his keynote address at his companys OpenWorld customer conference […]