Microsoft woos PeopleSoft customers--even big ones
C|Net | at | by Mike
Despite claims it made during the PeopleSoft-Oracle merger trial, Microsoft has announced a program to help PeopleSoft customers, including large enterprise clients, migrate to Microsoft software products.
The Monday announcement of the program comes just after competitor Oracle closed its long, drawn-out takeover bid for former rival PeopleSoft. During a federal antitrust trial that challenged Oracle's merger proposal, Microsoft executives testified that the software giant had no immediate plans to enter the business applications software market for large corporate customers--and that, as a result, the market would have fewer competitors.