The first week of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial against Oracle’s US$7.7 billion hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft has proven to be as much a high-stakes poker game as the enterprise ...

A federal judge handed Oracle a key victory Thursday, ruling that the company's potential acquisition of software rival PeopleSoft would pose no threat to competition in the corporate software market.

Concern over the disclosure of trade secrets cropped up again in the pretrial phase of the United States' antitrust case against Oracle, with a federal judge sternly rebuking a Department of Justice ...

SAP is arguing for a "prompt resolution" of the Oracle suit, which alleges "corporate theft on a grand scale." Oracle and SAP on Tuesday filed their case management conference statement in the lawsuit ...

As Oracle Corp. prepares to beat back the Justice Department's efforts to block its hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc., the company is pointing to another merger that the government tried to stop -- and ...