PeopleSoft's Dilemma
PeopleSoft CEO, and former Oracle executive, Craig Conway can dish it out. While in London he attributed Oracle's hostile takeover bid to Larry Ellison's rabid jealousy over PeopleSoft's merger with J.
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Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
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