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1. eWEEK.COM.

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*CONFERENCES & conventions, *COMPUTER industry, *COMPUTER software industry, *INTERNET software industry, *COMPUTER service industry
Abstract

The article presents a calendar of events related to the computer and software industries for April to May 2006. The EMC World conference will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, where the company is expected to showcase its latest hardware, document management, and utility computing products. Linux will be sponsoring two conferences, which are the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego, California and the Linux on Wall Street conference in New York City. The annual Oracle Applications User Group Collaborate will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. The MySQL Users Conference will be held in Santa Clara, California.

Published
2006

2. Judge Allows Oracle to Bid for PeopleSoft.

Author

Lohr, Steve and Flynn, Laurie J.

Subjects
*MERGERS & acquisitions, *COMPUTER software industry, *COMPUTER industry, *COMPUTER service industry, *BUSINESS enterprises, *ANTITRUST investigations
Abstract

Reports that a federal judge has ruled that Oracle, the nation's second-largest software company, can proceed with its hostile bid for PeopleSoft. How the decision handed the Justice Department a defeat in its legal challenge to the merger; Why the government chose to try to prevent the deal; Antitrust experts who think this case could open the way for more mergers in the software industry; How the European Commission is still investigating the proposed merger; Background and details of the takeover.

Published
2004

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