D. Edwards as part of a PeopleSoft deal.
Workday, the HCM software-as-a-service company co-founded by PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, just filed for an IPO last month.
As recently as last Friday, A. George Battle, a PeopleSoft director, said the company remained committed to winning the Delaware trial.
That contradicted testimony earlier in the one-month trial from a PeopleSoft executive who said Lawson rarely competed against PeopleSoft.
Workday is based there, as was PeopleSoft, an early pioneer in the space later acquired by Oracle.
In its investigation, Oracle traced the computer downloading the files to an Internet protocol address at SAP TN and, later, to an SAP TN employee, Wade Walden, whom the suit described as "a former PeopleSoft employee now employed by SAP".
(Traditional CRM vendors, such as PeopleSoft and Siebel, counter that their software has features that salesforce.com lacks).If the software-as-a-service rental model makes so much sense, why have so many firms that tried the same approach failed?
Since Ormond works as a software programmer for PeopleSoft (PSFT), he says he invests in technology stocks.
Leave those servers in a one-to-one relationship for your heavy-hitting applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and large OLTP databases (such as Oracle).
Failing that, it could encourage the antitrust authorities to intervene, as PeopleSoft did in 2003 when a rival software firm, Oracle, launched a hostile bid.
D. Edwards deal even as the PeopleSoft board rejected his bid.
