According to its president, Oracle has a clear idea of how it’s going to slice up PeopleSoft to retain the choicest assets and send the rest to the corporate rendering yard – it’s just waiting for the green light to hit it in the head with a sledge hammer so it can turn PeopleSoft into so much sliced and shrink-wrapped beef.
eWeek reports that Oracle president Charles Phillips made that clear during his Monday morning news conference at the company’s Oracle OpenWorld customer conference. It will put out the welcome mat for the best PeopleSoft developers, managers and sales executives and cast the rest to the four winds.
That was the gist of Phillips’ description of Oracle’s plans for PeopleSoft, eWeek says – and indeed is the fate of any company that gets bought out by a bigger and richer suitor. Oracle will put that added developer talent to work on building and enhancing Oracle products, while the PeopleSoft product line is slated for gradual extinction.
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