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RE: Oracle to buy Peoplesoft..


Saviour for whom?

I don't see Larry Ellison being insterested in promoting DB2 based
systems...



On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 kenney@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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>  Actually it may be a saviour, they stated that the transaction to take
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> As a JDE user on the iSeries for many years now, I think we are screwed.
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> 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
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> the World software would just get farmed out and PeopleSoft would have
> little interest in it other than in a "maintenance" mode.
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> This Oracle story just slams the door shut.  JDE World software will die
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> 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
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> "training" aspect of the conference.
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> And for any JDE consultants out there, I would brush up your contacts
> because you might get really busy in the next year!
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> From: Shrader, Patrick [mailto:pshrader@xxxxxxxx]
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> >From The Wall Street Journal:
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> 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
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> JDE may be the biggest loser here.
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> Patrick
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> 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.
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> If this is true, it bothers me a whole lot more than PS buying JDE.
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> PS and JDE are more or less 'niche' products compared to Oracle's 'we can
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> 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
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> 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'.
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> 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.
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> tell me i'm paranoid.  please.
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> Rick
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> According to CNBC:  Oracle is now buying Peoplesoft.  So, in short order,
> Oracle will own Peoplesoft and JDEC....
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> Don in DC
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