Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Oracle to acquire Peoplesoft

The Oracle Corporation announced early yesterday that it would acquire PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion, ending a bitter takeover fight that had lasted more than 18 months.

The shares of both PeopleSoft and Oracle rose sharply yesterday. PeopleSoft shares rose $2.47 a share [10.3%] to close at $26.42 a share, just under the offer price [an indication that Wall Street thinks this is a done deal]. And Oracle's stock price increased $1.35 a share [10.2%] to close at $14.63 [an indication that Wall Street think this is a good deal].

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/business/14CND-ORACLE.html

3 comments:

UnknownVariable said...

INSERT INTO ORACLE
SELECT EMPLOYEES.*
FROM PEOPLESOFT;

ALD said...

Nicely done. Geek humor of the highest order. I am forwarding that one to my boss (you may get credit - or I may just claim that as my own).

UnknownVariable said...

Feel free to Ambrose my comment ;-)