Renee Boucher Ferguson

At an annual shareholders meeting surprisingly lacking in any real backlash, PeopleSoft Inc. investors showed they approve of the current board of directors and its choice of fiduciary overseers. However, shareholders also flexed their collective muscles by voting in a measure that will ensure PeopleSoft count employee and director stock options as expenses—a measure the […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—It is likely Microsoft Corp. will file a protective order to stop Oracle Corp. from viewing sensitive information, according to a Microsoft executive. Microsoft submitted thousands of documents to the U.S. Department of Justice during the DOJs preliminary investigation into Oracles $9.4 billion bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. Once the DOJ filed suit against […]

Despite the fact that PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders will not get a chance to vote on a pro-Oracle Corp. slate of candidates for the PeopleSoft board, there still could be fireworks at this weeks PeopleSoft annual meeting. The meeting, which will be held on Thursday, is the first for PeopleSoft shareholders since last June when Oracle […]

Even in the Internet age, many enterprises continue to use ERP applications that are not wired for the Net. Some IT departments havent opted for Internet-enabled upgrades from enterprise resource planning software providers such as SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc. for any number of reasons. Some didnt have the resources, some didnt think the payback […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Microsoft Corp. detailed its latest Great Plains release and talked about a development roadmap for the manufacturing and accounting Enterprise Resource Planning suite at its Convergence 2004 conference here Monday. Coming just after a 7.5 extension release last spring, Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 is the companys biggest ERP development effort to date, according to […]

During a pretrial conference Friday, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled in favor of Oracle Corp.s request to have its in-house attorneys view its rivals sensitive—and competitive—information. The documents, which the U.S. Justice Department obtained during its eight-month investigation into Oracles proposed takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., are said to contain trade secrets of some of […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—For a typically cynical reporter, particularly at a Microsoft conference, Doug Burgums keynote address this morning to kick off Microsofts Convergence conference was, well, refreshing. In one sense, at least. While he touched on Microsofts technology, Burgum, the senior vice president of Microsofts Business Solutions division and former president of Great Plains, also talked […]

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP America Inc., has taken on whats been seen as a difficult position as CEO of the U.S. subsidiary of the largest software company in the world—and one that has a very strong German heritage and leadership. With a revolving door at the CEOs office over the past few years at […]

SAP AG announced the next iteration of its NetWeaver integration platform at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, on Thursday. A second event to announce NetWeaver 2004 is scheduled at SAPs campus in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday. This latest version of NetWeaver, originally announced in January 2003, is the first version in which the […]

The European Commission is joining its U.S. counterpart in fighting Oracle Corp.s hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft Inc. Oracle said on Friday it received a Statement of Objections from the Commission regarding the proposed merger—almost a full month earlier than the Commissions self-imposed May 11 deadline. The European watchdog launched an antitrust investigation shortly after […]