How to Cope When Your Service Provider is Acquired
Olin Thompson and PJ Jakovljevic - June 2, 2005

Challenges

Proving that the applications market would remain competitive and innovative was key to Oracle winning the antitrust lawsuit launched against it by the US government. The government spent a year before launching its suit to determine if Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft would result in a duopoly, thereby violating US antitrust laws. After months of expert testimony, US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that competition was pervasive enough in the industry not to be undermined by Oracle's ambition. Free to proceed, Oracle finalized its takeover bid in December, paying approximately $10.3 billion (USD) for PeopleSoft...