Oracle's Product Future: What Can the Past Tell?
Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic - May 31, 2005

Oracle's Acquisition History

Oracle's decision to acquire PeopleSoft, which finally came to fruition in December with a plum offering of approximately $10.3 billion (USD), was a bid to become the second biggest business applications provider in the market. However, Oracle, does not have a history of major acquisitions and has never faced the massive integration effort needed to be leverage its new asset. Moreover, Oracle is run by a management team that has never maneuvered a company through a takeover of this magnitude. Will it be capable of digesting what it has bitten--the largest trophy in the history of enterprise applications software?..