SAN FRANCISCO--It's a question of when, not if, Microsoft will compete with SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft in the market for business applications, an Accenture executive testified Wednesday at the Oracle ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 - Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle, testified at his company's antitrust trial on Wednesday that Microsoft's strategy of driving down prices was a crucial reason ...

Government witness Douglas Burgum, a Microsoft senior VP, testifying Wednesday at the Oracle antitrust trial in its efforts to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc., said industry reports that Microsoft is ...

Microsoft competes in the enterprise applications space, Oracle said in a white paper distributed one day before a top Microsoft executive is scheduled to testify to the contrary in the U.S.

A top Microsoft executive is warning PeopleSoft customers that they might want to think about a technology shift, now that Oracle's acquisition has been approved. "Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft ...

Elzinga, who earlier testified that an Oracle/PeopleSoft merger would result in a monopoly in the U.S., was questioned on why he narrowed his economic research of the ramifications of an ...

In a trial that promises to shed light on the private dealings of the computer software industry, the first bombshell dropped yesterday even before the courtroom doors opened in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 -- It's becoming increasingly clear that PeopleSoft Inc. isn't the only high-tech heavyweight worried about Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover bid for the business software maker.

In the first hostile takeover of a software company since IBM bought Lotus Development in 1995, Oracle will attempt to buy rival PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion in cash. For PeopleSoft customers, it means ...

As Microsoft's takeover attempt of Yahoo lurches toward an alleged deadline, some writers pine for a far more flamboyant fight from five years ago. Jim Kerstetter has been writing about the high-tech ...