PeopleSoft, Oracle fight is a canine affair

by Stacy Cowley

November 18, 2004 —

The wrangling between PeopleSoft Inc. and Oracle Corp. has once again gone to the dogs.

Seventeen months ago, when Oracle's bid for a hostile takeover of its rival first caused the bitter war of words between the two companies to break out, the pet Labrador of PeopleSoft's then-head, Craig Conway, became a symbolic prop. Conway charged that Oracle's suggestion it would acquire PeopleSoft but ditch its products was like someone asking to buy your dog so they can haul it out back and shoot it. Oracle's always dramatic chief, Larry Ellison, fired back that if he had a gun and Conway in the same room, it wouldn

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