US judge gives Oracle greenlight to pursue PeopleSoft
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After a three-month trial a US Federal Court judge has ruled that Oracle Corp.&#39;s hostile pursuit of bitter rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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The trial of Oracle Corp.'s attempt to upset PeopleSoft Inc.'s antitakeover measures will continue in December, the judge overseeing the case said Wednesday.
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Judge rejects Justice Department charges, allowing Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft to continue.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - The trial pitting software  giant Oracle Corp. ORCL.O against unwilling takeover target  PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O ended on Friday with a Delaware  judge's comment that recent developments seemed to have drawn  the bitter rivals closer together.
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A U.S. district court judge has ordered that&#160;Oracle&#39;s lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary&#160;be sent to mediation, according to a court document posted on www.tnlawsuit.com, a Web site SAP set up for the case.SAP spokesman Andy Kendzie declined to comment in much detail Thursday about Judge Martin J. Jenkins&#39; ruling, which occurred after a case management conference on Tuesday, according to the document.&quot;Our preference had always been that we explored mediation,&quot; Kendzie said.Oracle filed suit against SAP and TomorrowNow last year, charging that TomorrowNow employees illegally downloaded data from a secure Oracle support Web site, and used it to court Oracle&#39;s customers. The initial complaint alleges that &quot;corporate theft on a grand scale&quot; had occurred.SAP has said TomorrowNow was authorized to download materials from Oracle&#39;s Web site on behalf of TomorrowNow&#39;s customers, but also acknowledged &quot;some inappropriate downloads of fixes and support documents occurred at TomorrowNow.&quot; SAP has asserted that this information remained in TomorrowNow&#39;s systems and that SAP itself did not gain access to Oracle&#39;s intellectual property.TomorrowNow provides third-party support for Oracle&#39;s PeopleSoft, Siebel, and J.D. Edwards software products.Oracle could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
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Oracle (Quote, Chart) advanced its plans to acquire PeopleSoft Friday after the US Department of Justice said it would not appeal a ruling on an antitrust case that tried to block the merger.
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Software giant Oracle Corp. began its legal battle with rival PeopleSoft Inc. in Delaware Chancery Court Monday, the first of two cases expected to bring the national business media to the state&#39;s famed court of equity this month.
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Software maker Oracle Corp.  ORCL.O on Wednesday said it will let PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O  shareholders decide for themselves whether to accept Oracle's  $8.8 billion hostile takeover bid after learning that  PeopleSoft's board of directors will reject it.
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A US judge has cast doubt on European Commission evidence in the contested Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, undermining an argument Brussels may want to use if it decides to block it.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O can  celebrate a ruling by a U.S. judge that it can take over  archrival PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O, but analysts say the  world's second biggest software maker has a battery of other  barriers to overcome before a deal is clinched.
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Oracle Corp. won permission yesterday from a federal judge to proceed with its $7.7 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. , reviving a battle that PeopleSoft said drove customers to competitors.
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Software stocks rose on Friday on  speculation there may be more mergers in the industry after a  U.S. judge allowed Oracle Corp. to proceed with its takeover of  rival PeopleSoft Inc.
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A federal judge has ruled that Oracle can proceed with its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, saying that the merger would not stifle competition in the market.
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Options traders have been building bullish positions in PeopleSoft Inc.  (PSFT.O) as investors bet a federal judge will approve Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid of the business software maker, traders said on Monday.
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With the future of its $7.7 billion takeover attempt of PeopleSoft Inc. resting in the hands of a federal judge, Oracle Corp. is once again extending its tender offer for investors to tender their shares.
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A crucial legal ruling in Oracle's takeover bid for Peoplesoft is delayed after a judge says he needs to hear more evidence.
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After 18 months of playing hard to get, business software maker PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) finally decided yesterday to glam itself up in the hope that suitor Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) might give it one more look.