Oracle's Hostile Takeover Bid For PeopleSoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday June 7, 2003 @11:48AM from the what-do-the-vapors-say dept.

rkuris writes "Oracle has launched a 5.1 billion dollar cash hostle takeover bid against Peoplesoft. PeopleSoft's CEO Craig Conway (a former top executive for Oracle) called Oracle's offer 'atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior.' 'Obviously it is a transparent attempt to disrupt the [1.7 billion dollar friendly] acquisition of J.D. Edwards by PeopleSoft announced earlier this week.' The week's events have reopened old wounds between the companies, which have a history of hostility and name calling."

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Re:What exactly *IS* a hostile takeover anyways? by dimator · 2003-06-07 12:26 · Score: 4, Funny

TWO clicks later, I'm at this node, and am now going to waste anywhere from 1 hour to the rest of the day clicking nodes... thank you very much for linking to e2.

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