Microsoft briefly pondered taking a minority stake in PeopleSoft to help it fend off Oracle. "Thinking about this PeopleSoft bid by Oracle made me wonder if we should approach them and suggest a minority investment to bolster their independence in return for a modest platform commitment," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail to CEO Steve Ballmer the day after Oracle announced its PeopleSoft bid.
Microsoft briefly pondered taking a minority stake in PeopleSoft to help it fend off Oracle. "Thinking about this PeopleSoft bid by Oracle made me wonder if we should approach them and suggest a minority investment to bolster their independence in return for a modest platform commitment," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in an e-mail to CEO Steve Ballmer the day after Oracle announced its PeopleSoft bid.
Now Microsoft execs insist that they have no intention of competing with SAP, Oracle or PeopleSoft to supply the big enterprises with core business software. Smaller companies with less than 500 employees is the target...for now. News.com's Alorie Gilbert has the full scoop on the latest revelations from the Oracle/DOJ trial...
Because
COVID
drove
customers
to
postpone
upgrades
last
year,
the
latest
annual
update
of
Oracle
database
packs
two
years’
worth
of
new
features.
And
it’s
adding
icing
to
the
cake
...
Oracle
will
allow
employees
to
choose
their
work
location,
and
will
continue
to
maintain
“hubs”
in
Redwood
City
and
other
locations
around
the
world,
it
said.
...
Oracle
is
taking
MySQL
in
a
new
direction:
introducing
an
aggressively
priced
cloud
service
combining
transaction
processing
and
data
warehousing,
with
the
bonus
of
dispensing
...
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