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Despite governance questions, Conway gets $16M parachute

Former Peoplesoft CEO Craig Conway must have had one helluva contract lawyer when he joined PeopleSoft in 1999. After first firing Conway because of a "loss of confidence in Mr. Conway's ability to continue to lead the company" and then accusing him of malfeasance on the basis of his admission that...

Tags: Craig Conway

Blog posts 2004-10-19

PeopleSoft board member: Conway underplayed disruptive influence of Oracle takeover effort

Declan McCullagh has the scoop on the board room machinations that led to Craig Conway's dismissal as PeopleSoft CEO. Steven Goldby, the Symex Technologies CEO who chairs PeopleSoft's governance committee, said that Conway was fired in part because was less than honest when he told Wall Street analysts last year...

Tags: board, Craig Conway

Blog posts 2004-10-04

What's next for PeopleSoft?

PeopleSoft's board fired CEO Craig Conway left, which leads to speculation that the founder and chairman, and now CEO, Dave Duffield has a plan to get the company's sales back on track, that he will make a deal to sell the firm to hostile suitor Oracle, or get deeper in bed with IBM or another...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Craig Conway, Dave Duffield

Blog posts 2004-10-01

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Peoplesoft exec pops up at eMeter

Former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway joins board of smart grid software player. by Heather Clancy

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...

Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-13

SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho

When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put on his jocular performance for the analysts and press at Dreamforce yesterday, I'm sure he didn't expect little ol' Zoho to come bite him in the pants. That's exactly what's happened. According to Venture Beat's Anthony Ha: Salesforce.com’s strategy can...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Marc Benioff, Zoho, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Workday: a tipping point?

Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...

Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Wither Oracle

Wither OracleGrammarDidn't you mean to title your article "Whither Oracle . . ." as in "Where Is Oracle Going . . ."? The word "wither" means to shrivel up, as in a dead plant, and is not usually used in the imperative. That'd be a strange command or curse -...

Tags: Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-29

Wither Oracle, SAP, et al? (Pt 3)

There's one more tough decision for enterprise software vendors that I want to cover. Then I can respond to some of the flak that I've taken for Pt 1, when I focused on license revenue vs maintenance/services. Pt 2 examined stack or platform? The third choice is around breadth of...

Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Workday, SAP AG, SAP NetWeaver, Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2006-04-28

Intel wants super 3G in every PC

Intel wants super 3G in every PCCut off nose to spite face?3G is too little, too late. I would have thought that InHell would be pushing WiMAX - since it is a superior technology to crappy-@ss 3G. Oh wait - that's right, IEEE's political apparatchiks have stopped progress on the...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, PC, WiMAX, Intel Corp., 3G, HSDPA, IEEE

Discussion threads 2006-02-15

PeopleSoft's moves to thwart Oracle

Declan McCullagh reports on on testimony in the Oracle/PeopleSoft spat by Kevin Parker, PeopleSoft's co-president and chief financial officer, who acknowledged that PeopleSoft went to customers with hat in hand to accelerate deals to avoid what otherwise could have been an embarrassing second quarter for the company in 2003. This...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc.

Blog posts 2004-10-13

PeopleSoft's last hurrah?

When PeopleSoft's CEO Craig Conway speaks to thousands of customers tomorrow at the company's annual customer event, he will try to convince them that the barbarians are not at the gate. Following a federal judge's ruling in favor of Oracle's proposed $7.7 billion buyout of PeopleSoft, Conway is in a...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc.

Blog posts 2004-09-20

PeopleSoft's Dilemma

PeopleSoft CEO, and former Oracle executive, Craig Conway can dish it out. While in London he attributed Oracle's hostile takeover bid to Larry Ellison's rabid jealousy over PeopleSoft's merger with J.D. Edwards. Conway also said he was going to eat SAP's lunch, and become the #1 enterprise software company. How...

Tags: Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc.

Blog posts 2004-06-22

Date set for Oracle antitrust suit

Date set for Oracle antitrust suitThe BEST job field [Lawyer] not being offshored yetI think I am going to become an attorney of law.Question."The judge ordered the Justice Department to hand over the third-party documents to Oracle but did allow any third party, such as a customer or competitor, to...

Tags: antitrust, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department of Justice, PeopleSoft Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-03-10