Microsoft lands on DOJ's witness list against Oracle
eWeek | at | by Mike
Answering the long-asked question of whether Microsoft will testify in the U.S. Department of Justice's much ballyhooed case against Oracle, the Justice Department released Tuesday night its witness list, and it included the software giant.
The Justice Department will call Microsoft to the witness stand to support its claim that Oracle's proposed-and hostile-takeover bid of PeopleSoft Inc. is bad for competition in the upper echelons of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software industry. The DOJ has defined competition in the upper echelons of the ERP software industry as between Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP AG.