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Oracle CEO Outlines Combined Companies' Plans Jan 18, 2005 Companies Commit One of the World's Largest Research & Development Teams To Deliver Next-Generation Applications Speaking to a worldwide audience of customers and partners, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today outlined the companies' product strategy and vision. The company reaffirmed its commitment to continue to support PeopleSoft product lines until 2013 and release PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0. "By retaining over 90 percent of PeopleSoft's development and support organization we can deliver on our commitment to all of our applications customers," Ellison said. Ellison also announced "Project Fusion," the company's next-generation information- oriented application architecture that will combine the best features and functions of Oracle's applications with those of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. "Our greatly expanded development team, will focus our resources on creating next generation information-oriented applications based completely on industry standards," Ellison said. Additional comments from customers and partners regarding the combined companies can be found at www.oracle.com/peoplesoft. For more information about the combined companies and capabilities, please visit http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/launch_18jan05.html. Source: Oracle Press Release Better Together - Oracle & Peoplesoft Jan 18, 2005
Better Together: Oracle's Wookey Details Combined Oracle and
PeopleSoft Applications Product Roadmap Oracle Senior Vice President of Applications Development John Wookey today unveiled the combined Oracle and PeopleSoft product roadmap and support plans, providing customers with unprecedented options for applications that meet their unique business requirements. Following an announcement made earlier by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Wookey also detailed plans for "Project Fusion," a next generation information-oriented architecture and application set supporting the best features, flows and usability traits of Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products. "Oracle and PeopleSoft are truly better together," said Wookey at a customer event earlier today. "The new combined organization, comprised of the best talent in the enterprise software industry, will provide customers with greater innovation, support and expertise across industries. Our goal is to help customers achieve unprecedented levels of business efficiency and competitiveness by delivering products that reduce complexity and lower costs." Wookey reiterated that Oracle retained approximately 90 percent of PeopleSoft's development and support team, helping to ensure continuity for innovative product enhancements and around-the-clock support for PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World products. "Project
Fusion": Revolutionary Technology, Evolutionary Path
Continuity, Innovation and Resources Support milestones include: Additional comments from customers and partners regarding the combined companies can be found at the following links: http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/customer.html and http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/ptr_quote.html. For more information about the combined companies and capabilities, please visit http://www.oracle.com/peoplesoft/launch_18jan05.html. Source: Oracle Press Release PeopleSoft previews World, EnterpriseOne updates March 18, 2004 PeopleSoft Inc. outlined at a Cebit press conference on Thursday its planned schedule of product updates for the next few months, highlighting new releases of its industry-focused EnterpriseOne suite and new functionality for its legacy World software. PeopleSoft's 3,000 World customers will soon be able to tap into the mainframe software via the Web, when PeopleSoft releases an update enabling HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) access to the software at the end of this month. Previously, World could only be used through a direct server connection, according to PeopleSoft Chief Technology Officer Rick Bergquist, who attended the trade show in Hanover, Germany. The new version will be delivered at no charge to customers on maintenance plans, and also includes 250 core functionality and regulatory updates, he said. PeopleSoft's EnterpriseOne customers will see the next version of that suite in May. The EnterpriseOne line is built around the applications PeopleSoft acquired through its J.D. Edwards & Co. purchase, and the company delivered in September a previously scheduled overhaul of the software J.D. Edwards had in the works. The September release included user-interface changes to bring EnterpriseOne's look-and-feel in line with that of PeopleSoft's existing Enterprise applications, but the May update will be "the first one done on our watch," Bergquist said. It features new financial and regulatory compliance updates, and a significant expansion of features to help manufacturing companies adjust their supply chains to accommodate fluctuating demand, he said. Finally, PeopleSoft said it has signed an integration pact with vendors including IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), Computer Associates International Inc., Quest Software Inc., Segue Software Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. Those companies will update their systems management software products to accommodate PeopleSoft's applications monitoring technology, so that customers can use a single management product of their choice to monitor a heterogeneous array of applications. "Our commitment is to lower the cost of ownership for our applications and make them the cheapest to run and the easiest to monitor," Bergquist said. "If customers want to use (IBM's) Tivoli or (HP's) OpenView, they can." Each vendor will be responsible for setting their own schedule for updating their software; Thursday's announcement signals their intent to devote the resources necessary to do so, Bergquist said. Source: Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service PeopleSoft Updates World March 18, 2004 PeopleSoft has announced a new release (A7.3 Cumulative Update 15) of its World software, due to be generally available on March 31, 2004. World is software PeopleSoft picked up when it acquired J.D. Edwards last year. Immediately after that, rival enterprise software company Oracle made the first of several bids for PeopleSoft, and more recently wooed the legacy J.D. Edwards user group Quest with descriptions of Oracle service levels and other factors. Source: Demir Barlas, Line56 |
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