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Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer: Larry's not messing around. The offer is up from $16 to $19.50. Analysts were saying that they'd need at least $20 per share to make it happen. And, not surprisingly, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards for resisting the takeover attempt. Oracle ...

Oracle confirms bid for bigger PeopleSoft | CNET News.com: Since PeopleSoft has swallowed J.D. Edwards, it's become a little fatter for the feast. Consequently, Larry coughed up another billion. "Oracle reaffirmed its bid to acquire PeopleSoft Thursday, following the successful completion of PeopleSoft's offer for J.D. Edwards last week that ...

At yesterday's meeting of Apple's board of directors, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to the board. Link. Schmidt joins the uber-elite crew of Bill Campbell, Chairman and former CEO of Intuit Corp., Millard Drexler, Chairman and CEO of J. Crew, Albert Gore Jr., Former Vice ...

Here's something that I have in EditPlus, but I haven't found in other editors: a "duplicate line" shortcut. In EditPlus, you can have your cursor in a line, hit CTRL-J, and the line will be copied immediately underneath the current line. Hit CTRL-J four or five times and you get ...

PeopleSoft Acquires J.D. Edwards: This part is done, which may or may not just fatten the calf for the Oracle butcher. It's like the picture of the little fish about to get eaten by the bigger fish, which is, in turn, about to get eaten by a shark.

OYEZ: Toss out that directory of J-Lo tracks, baby, because the oral arguments of the U.S. Supreme Court have arrived. Get them here on MP3. Too bad the content is licensed under Creative Commons, because it'd be awfully funny to listen to arguments about pirating music on a pirated MP3. ...

Connecticut joins Oracle fracas: It's like a soap opera. Connecticut's attorney general announced Wednesday that he plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Oracle, seeking to defeat the company's proposed buyout of rival PeopleSoft. We count four lawsuits now: Oracle v. PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft v. Oracle, J.D. Edwards v. Oracle, and ...

Microsoft Extends SQL Server Reach: This is cool, though only SQL geeks would care. "Microsoft Corp. will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to over 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, such as SAP R/3, SAP BW, J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft." Now they just ...

Ringside at PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize: Good article about how SAP is trying to poach customers from the Oracle / Peoplesoft mess. "By positioning itself as a safe haven, SAP hopes to pick up the storm-tossed customers of its three main competitors, Oracle, PeopleSoft and ...

PeopleSoft CEO: Oracle saga is over: The CEO of PeopleSoft is claiming that the Oracle bid is dead in the water. "As far as Conway is concerned, Oracle lost steam in July, after PeopleSoft sealed its $1.8 billion purchase of J.D Edwards. Oracle had initially wished to stop that deal, ...

Sun Sets Sights on IBM's AIX Customers: In the SCO/IBM drama, Sun is playing the role that SAP is playing in the Oracle/PeopleSoft production: Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play ...

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, dropped a bombshell on fans this morning when she announced that Albus Dumbledore had been gay all along. This was also a bombshell to Wikipedia, for different reasons, and the result is fascinating to follow. Some people apparently ran right to their ...

Tech Workers' Losing Fight to Match Overseas Wages: Here's an awfully depressing article about overseas outsourcing that counters some of the more positive news we'd been hearing. Stocking shelves and hauling boxes on the graveyard shift at Target was something Ed Marx never imagined he would be doing. After ...