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Ellison Triumph: Oracle Can Proceed with PeopleSoft Takeover Bid, Court Decides
Though still far from a done deal, PeopleSoft stock climbs 15% on news in after hours trading
By: Oracle News Desk
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"This decision puts the onus squarely on the board of PeopleSoft to meet with us," said Oracle chairman Jeff Henley triumphantly. He made this statement in response to the release of a 164-page decision by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, in which Walker gave his verdict on the antitrust lawsuit filed seven months ago by the US Justice Department and 10 states seeking to block Oracle's would-be "hostile takeover" of rival PeopleSoft. There aren't sufficient grounds to block it, Walker has decided. It will now be incumbent on the PeopleSoft board to meet with Oracle and discuss the acceptance by its shareholders of Oracle's offer, Henley believes. "This is great news for all shareholders," a spokesman for the American Shareholders Association, Daniel Clifton, said on hearing of the decision. "I think it should be up to the PeopleSoft shareholders to decide whether this is good for them, and that's exactly what this judge is allowing." The order is stayed for 10 days to allow for a possible appeal, but it was enough to send PeopleSoft stock climbing and seems to bring to end a lawsuit on which Oracle has allegedly spent some $60 million and PeopleSoft even more, some $70 million. "Contrary to the characterization of plaintiff's counsel before trial," wrote Judge Walker, "the court found the testimony of the customer witnesses largely unhelpful to plaintiff's effort to define a narrow market." "Unsubstantiated customer apprehensions do not substitute for hard evidence," he declared, a reference to the Justice Department's arguments that the planned merger would diminish competition in the market for business software used by companies for such tasks as managing payroll and keeping track of employee records.
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