PeopleSoft Announces Alliance with IBM 12
Kyle writes "I just got out of PeopleSoft's opening keynote for PS Connect 2004, where Craig Conway announced a new alliance with IBM. According to Conway, PeopleSoft and IBM will both be investing $1 billion over the next few years to build a joint solution utilizing PeopleSoft's applications and IBM's middleware products. Yahoo Business has an article."
monopoly (Score:5, Funny)
Ellison (Score:4, Insightful)
Kind of interesting, actually. These could be the first hairline fractures in the Vast Anti-Microsoft Pro-Linux Corporate Alliance.
It could have potentially profound effects in the world of Corporate Linux. Then again, it probably won't. Expect the MS and SCO FUD machines to spin it that way, though.
Oracle may be big, but going up against IBM is a bad strategy. As the old joke went in the "IBM is gonna buy Apple!" days:
Q: What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?
A: IBM.
Re:Ellison (Score:2)
Well, I don't know if these are the first fractures. IBM and Oracle have been competing fiercely in the Database market for many years now. IBM has been nearly giving away DB2 in order to steal Oracle customers. When IBM purchased Informix, Oracle used the opportunity to switch more than a few Informix customers to Oracle.
Re:Ellison (Score:2)
Still, this seems like more of an escalation of hostilities. IBM and Oracle have always been big wary sumo wrestlers circling one another in the professional services and business support system arenas. I suspect (though I don't have the energy to look up SEC filings) that these components of their businesses outweigh the database portions.
Link dead... (Score:2, Informative)
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/21/technology/bc.t
removed (Score:2)
Removed
This article has been removed at the request of the news provider, Business Wire. [yahoo.com]
If I'd known
Also, I went to Business Wire and didn't immediately find the article there. Anyone found it? While I am not overly interested in hostile takeovers of companies I don't use, I am not a bit more interested because of the conspiracy to keep the knowledge hidden.
Peoplesoft's already using IBM (Score:2, Informative)
PeopleSoft's already using a bunch of IBM products for the HR/Financials systems they provide... IBM Websphere is immediately coming to mind as an option for the backend application server, with webpages/java servlets served up by IBM-modified versions of Apache and Tomcat, IIRC. The other choice PS supports is a comglomeration of bloated BEA products (Jolt/Tuxedo, Weblogic) that I've been told ar
Re:Peoplesoft's already using IBM (Score:2)
I doubt it. Tuxedo and Jolt are tied into PeopleSoft's Application Server pretty tightly. It would require PeopleSoft to completely rebuild the App Server layer. Since this is a five year deal, that may happen over time, but I don't think you'll see it occur any time soon. As I recall, the existing WebSphere product that PeopleSoft delivers is nothing but a slim
whopper pie in the sky guess (Score:3, Insightful)
They were hoping it would be a poison pill. But Ellison just said, "That was stupid. You aren't maximizing shareholder value. We'll still buy you, but it'll be a lower price."
And customers still fled PeopleSoft, because "your money back" doesn't compare to implementation costs, which are much larger than purchase price. So, PeopleSoft could have said, "Ok, we'll even cover implementation costs!" and then it would be awfully expensive for Ellison to buy the company and terminate support for PeopleSoft's database products.
But then the chance of a shareholder suit would have gone way up.
I'm curious if this new deal with IBM says, "We both will invest <large value> in this new product. And if either of us breaks contract (like an Ellison owned PeopleSoft might want to) then we owe the other guy <large value>." in order to be a more significant poison pill for Ellison. And this poison pill might be easier to defend in a shareholder suit.
powerbuilder for linux? (Score:2)
kdevelop 3.3 does java (Score:2)