Major PeopleSoft shareholder plans not to tender
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Private Capital Management LP, which owns nearly a tenth of hostile takeover target PeopleSoft Inc., (PSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday that it will not tender its shares to Oracle Corp.
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The PeopleSoft director who has been leading the defense of the software company's anti-takeover measures said Tuesday the company's board is willing to talk about a deal with rival Oracle.
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WASHINGTON : Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft have once again spurned a takeover bid from Oracle Corp, even after the latter announced it had control of more than 60 percent of PeopleSoft&#39;s shares.
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American software giant PeopleSoft remained defiant against Oracle&#39;s hostile $9.2billion (Â£5billion) bid yesterday despite PeopleSoft shareholders backing the offer over the weekend.
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Senior executives at business software group PeopleSoft unanimously recommended that its shareholders reject a 8.8 billion dollar takeover bid from Oracle Corp, PeopleSoft said in a statement Wednesday.
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PeopleSoft board members on Wednesday rejected Oracle&#39;s &quot;best and final&quot; offer in the often contentious 17-month hostile takeover battle--but the database software giant remains on the hunt.
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Software company Peoplesoft has formally rejected a takeover bid from rival Oracle for a sixth time. The rejection came after about 61% of shareholders in the California-based business software firm backed Oracle&#39;s $9.2bn (Â£4.9bn) approach.
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He says he will walk away if the majority of shareholders don&#39;t themselves sell to Oracle by Nov. 19. By Rick Whiting. PeopleSoft&#39;s fate is in the hands of its shareholders.
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Oracle dislikes what PeopleSoft is doing, but it's still buying.
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Business-software maker PeopleSoft Inc.  on Saturday said its board has again unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s  &#36;9.2 billion tender offer, even after 61 percent of PeopleSoft shares had been tendered to Oracle.
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With Oracle&#39;s $9.2 billion tender offer for PeopleSoft set to expire Friday, David A. Duffield, PeopleSoft&#39;s chief executive, accused Oracle on Thursday of spreading
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An attorney for Oracle Corp. says the company will abandon its legal challenge to PeopleSoft Inc.'s antitakeover protections if shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by a Nov. 19 deadline.
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A major battle is over, but the war for PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) rages on. Executives of the business software giant continued to resist Oracle&#39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) $9 billion
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - PeopleSoft Inc.'s PSFT.O  chief financial officer on Wednesday said the company's  customer assurance program might not force liabilities on  Oracle Corp. ORCL.O if its $7.7 billion takeover bid  succeeds.
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Spooked by souring market sentiment and months of internecine verbal jousting, PeopleSoft has adopted a conciliatory line to shareholders that it will not sell them short and is willing to wait until Oracle Corporation&#39;s unsolicited offer hits the right
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In the final days before shareholders decide on Oracle's takeover bid for rival software maker PeopleSoft,  PeopleSoft is bracing for the worst. Oracle officials say they won't know until shortly before a  Nov. 19 deadline if a majority of PeopleSoft shareholders support the &#36;8.8 billion offer.
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With PeopleSoft stocksholders reportedly tendering some 60 percent of the company&#39;s shares, Oracle is pressing forward with its proposed hostile takeover.