International Business

Podcast: Cultural Differences in Outsourcing

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:52:00 EDT

We talked about specifics in dealing with East European and Indian offshore developers.

Ellison Announces "There Will Be Job Losses" As Oracle Gets PeopleSoft At Long Last - For $10.3 Billion

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST

In all all-cash deal worth approximately $10.3 billion, Oracle is going to acquire 100% of PeopleSoft's shares, at a newly-increased price of $26.50, a $2.50 increase on its 'best and final' offer which expired in November. PeopleSoft's board has approved the deal. 'We believe this revised offer provides good value for PeopleSoft stockholders and represents a substantial increase in value from October,' says the chairman of PeopleSoft's transaction committee, George 'Skip' Battle. Says Oracle's Ellison: 'Today we announced both a great quarter and the agreement to acquire PeopleSoft. This merger gives Oracle even more scale and momentum.'

Globalizing an Enterprise Content Architecture

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Rushed to deployment under the mantra of 'now or never' in the late 1990s, many corporate Web sites have received major makeovers in the last few years. The driving force behind these efforts has been the increased use of the Web to create an active channel of communication with consumers, corporate buyers, resellers, shareholders, and employees.