John Pallatto

SAN FRANCISCO—PeopleSoft Inc. was prepared approve discounts of up to 55 percent off list price to win business from Oracle Corp. and other competitors, a PeopleSoft sales executives testified Wednesday in U.S. District Court here. PeopleSoft didnt hesitate to discount heavily whenever it was competing head-to-head with Oracle for new business or when it stood […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle Corp.s attempted hostile takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. is a “textbook definition of predation” under currently defined antitrust law and should be barred by the federal courts, PeopleSoft contends in a white paper it prepared at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice. PeopleSoft released copies of the white paper to the media […]

SAN FRANCISCO—DaimlerChrysler AG would likely have to spend $50 Million to $100 million to replace its PeopleSoft Inc. applications if Oracle is allowed to buyout the enterprise software company, a senior IT executive with the multinational auto maker testified Tuesday. As in earlier testimony presented by senior executives from large corporations who are PeopleSoft customers, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—At the ongoing trial here, the Department of Justice on Wednesday marched PeopleSoft customers and systems integrators into the witness box. The prosecutors hoped to demonstrate how the market for enterprise application software would lose its competitive vibrancy if Oracle was allowed to carry out its hostile buyout of PeopleSoft. Leading off in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Testimony in the Department of Justice antitrust trial against Oracle zeroed in on the governments key theory that PeopleSoft Inc. is one of only three companies that compete in the global market for high-end enterprise application software. Richard Bergquist, PeopleSoft Inc.s chief technology officer and the companys only fellow, testified that SAP AG and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Whether the market for enterprise resource management software is as narrow and limited as the U.S. Department of Justice claims was the focus of opening arguments Monday in the governments antitrust lawsuit against Oracle. Department of Justice antitrust specialist F. Claude Scott argued that Oracle Corp.s attempted $7.7 billion takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. is […]

Another big shoe dropped in the continuing investigation of accounting irregularities at Computer Associates when former CEO Sanjay Kumar disclosed June 4 that he is leaving the company. Its another indication that more weighty shoes are likely to come clunking down on Computer Associates International Inc.s headquarters as the investigation continues and federal investigators disclose […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Investment in new software development startups is returning to the healthy levels observed before the 1999-2000 Internet bubble, but venture capitalists are being highly selective about the technologies and companies they invest in. Venture firms these days are providing very little seed money to companies that are starting from scratch with little more […]

Its not every day that a major corporation offers to pay $10 million in greenmail to encourage prompt settlement of a federal investigation. But that is what Computer Associates International seems to be doing. At first glance it may seem quite laudable that CA wants to make a clean breast of its accounting misconduct by […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer Inc. will ease up a bit on the frequency of Mac OS X upgrades after it releases the next version, code-named Tiger, the companys chief software technology officer said Tuesday. But users can expect the company to continue regular upgrades that take advantage of steady advances in Mac hardware, Avadis Tevanian said […]