RE: Oracle to buy Peoplesoft.. -- MIDRANGE-L

Great timing for a user conference ... ROTFLMAO!!!!

If the issue is pure dollar and cents economics ...

What is more likely to happen is that the OneWorld product gets absorbed and the World product might get spun off as a separate venture or deliberately get killed.

I'm not a JDE expert, but there seems to be a "world of difference" (sorry for the pun) between the two product sets ...I don't perceive them as being on the same planet ...

But in the end, he that runs the company makes the decisions ... Larry E. will do what is necessary to grow his core DBMS business ... PeopleSoft and OneWorld play there ... World isn't on the Oracle DBMS, so killing it would cause a potential increase in Oracle DBMS business as companies migrate to another DBMS!

... just my $.02 ...

John

At 10:47 AM 6/6/2003, you wrote:

As a JDE user on the iSeries for many years now, I think we are screwed.  We
sorta took the whole PeopleSoft thing the other day as "well... let's just
do business as usual and see what happens".  We are running the World
software (their original green screen app) and had no plans to migrate to
OneWorld (their "new" GUI client/server based product).  Our hopes were that
the World software would just get farmed out and PeopleSoft would have
little interest in it other than in a "maintenance" mode.

This Oracle story just slams the door shut.  JDE World software will die and
die quickly in their hands.  The big JDE User conference starts Monday in
Denver (I'll be there) and you can bet most people will be there not for the
"training" aspect of the conference.

And for any JDE consultants out there, I would brush up your contacts
because you might get really busy in the next year!

-----Original Message-----
From: Shrader, Patrick [mailto:pshrader@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Oracle to buy Peoplesoft..

>From The Wall Street Journal:

Commenting on PeopleSoft's $1.58 billion stock offer for J.D. Edwards,
Oracle said that, once it completes the proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft,
Oracle will "review whether, and on what terms, Oracle would support that
transaction."

JDE may be the biggest loser here.

Patrick


-----Original Message-----
From: MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:01 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Oracle to buy Peoplesoft..

I don't think you're paranoid at all. If I'm not mistaken, JDE is the most
utilized ERP package on the iSeries. If not, it's in the top 3. Losing that
product would be extremely detrimental to the iSeries.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com

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If this is true, it bothers me a whole lot more than PS buying JDE.

PS and JDE are more or less 'niche' products compared to Oracle's 'we can do
anything if you'll only fit your square peg into our round hole' attitude.
(although, PS uses Oracle as the DB on many platforms, doesn't
it?)

Oracle's interest in PS and JDE looks to me to be more of a case of
dismantling the competition - sorta saying to JDE customers: 'now that we
have you, your only upgrade path is to Oracle'.

I'm not a PS or a JDE user, so other than hurting the iseries platform, i
couldn't care less.  Losing JDE as an ongoing concern would really hurt the
platform.  hurt it bad.

tell me i'm paranoid. please.

Rick

-----original message--------
According to CNBC:  Oracle is now buying Peoplesoft.  So, in short order,
Oracle will own Peoplesoft and JDEC....

Don in DC


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