Stacy Cowley

With PeopleSoft vanquished, Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison is setting his sights on the industry's leading business applications vendor, SAP AG. As SAP announced financial results Wednesday showing booming growth in its U.S. business, Ellison told a gathering of financial analysts that Oracle welcomes increased competition with SAP and believes that in any technology shootout its middleware stack will stomp SAP's flat.

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IBM Corp. and Sybase Inc. have teamed to add support for Sybase's database software on IBM's eServer OpenPower Linux servers. The two companies said they will jointly sell and market their products.

Forrester Research Inc. analyst Paul Hamerman said he recommends customers update their software to the latest versions, to reduce some of the risk around continued product support.

Oracle had asked for a meeting this weekend to finalize a deal, but PeopleSoft casts shareholder tender as little more than a straw poll.

Two major PeopleSoft shareholders have reached opposite conclusions on how to cast their votes on Oracle's buyout offer.

U.K. analysis firm Netcraft Ltd. said the Bush site appears to be using network management technology from Akamai Technologies Inc. to restrict access.

Firing Craig Conway will cost PeopleSoft Inc. at least US$3.2 million, a payment for salary and bonuses Conway would have earned over the next two years, the company said Monday in a regulatory filing describing its separation agreement with its former CEO.