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Federal Judge Rules Oracle can Bid for PeopleSoft

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the carry-on-ellison dept.

terrymaster69 writes "The NY Times reports (free reg, required) that Oracle may have the go ahead to continue its hostile bidding for PeopleSoft. The Justice Department had previously tried to paint the merger as anti-competitive in the corporate services software market. 'Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Federal District Court in San Francisco rejected the government's definition of the market as too narrow, noting that the software business is particularly dynamic, with a host of current and emerging competitors in that area including Microsoft.'"

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  1. Love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is truly a wonderful thing. Embrace it.

  2. PeopleSoft? by penguinoid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cat /dev/enhancements.spam >> /dev/PeopleSoft

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  3. Anti-trust legislation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    George Bush gave Microsoft a 'get out of jail free' card just when it looked like the courts were going to do some real damage to it. I wondered if Kerry would do anything different. The only Kerry policy I can find on antitrust has to do with the insurance company exemption from the legislation.

    It looks like the same old same old is going to continue.

  4. doubt it by millahtime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I doubt it. One of Kerrys top 10 contributors is M$

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  5. mo3 dOwn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the reaper BSD's BSD's codebase sux0r status, *BSD numbers continue the point more who are intersted