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...course, the real money is in customizing their app and getting it onto every college and university campus in the world. The majority of colleges and universities in the U.S. rely on only three or four information-management systems, such as PeopleSoft, which in turn allow students to add and drop courses, get their grades and handle the student and teacher directories. TerriblyClever is already integrating its iPhone application with those major systems - which appeals to campuses, since the iPhone is such a cheap and ubiquitous tool for students. At Stanford, 2,500 of the school's 8,000 students...
...countries stand on their own. From our point of view, better than a constitution would be if an IT consultant could work tomorrow in France, Italy or the U.K. without restriction. But he can't. That has to change. Your major competitor is Oracle. after Oracle's acquisitions of PeopleSoft and retek, Why are you sticking with partnerships? We have a completely different strategy. We believe that in the business world we're in, it's just faster and we're more flexible through partnerships. If you make an acquisition, you waste a lot of time and energy bringing products...
...possible." If Schröder can't find a better line than that, he may end up in the doghouse. Holiday Hookups A rash of late-year megamergers struck the U.S., including health-care firm Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant; the long-awaited $10.3 billion Oracle-PeopleSoft marriage; phone provider Sprint's $35 billion merger with Nextel; and the uniting of software companies Symantec and Veritas in an all-stock deal worth around $12.5 billion...
...ACQUIRED. Business-software manufacturer PEOPLESOFT INC., by rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter 18-month takeover battle during which former PeopleSoft head Craig Conway compared Larry Ellison, Oracle's aggressive CEO, to Genghis Khan; in Pleasanton, California. Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal after repeated rebuffs, making it the number two player in the lucrative business-applications industry behind Germany...
...Clear Your Desktop PeopleSoft fired CEO Craig Conway, citing a "loss of confidence" in his ability. Investors took the U.S. software firm's move as a step toward agreeing to a $7.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle. Conway had opposed the deal...