I only use the db, not the apps. I do know people here though that use the
Oracle apps and they'd probably agree with you.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schuster, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
> Well we have both Oracle Financials and PS HRMS w/ Payroll. The consensus
> here is that PS open source code and ability to modify to fit specific
> business needs is much better than Oracles closed source patch update TAR
> hell you go through. But to each his own ....
>
>
> <http://intranet>
>
>
> Stephen E. Schuster
> PeopleSoft Administrator
> 2000 Ashland Drive
> Ashland, KY 41101
>
>
> Office Phone 606.920.7447
> Cell Phone 606.831.4590
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 1:18 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
>
> Um...I was going to question your equating PeopleSoft to the good guys,
but
> then I saw your sig.
>
> nm.
>
> -Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schuster, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:12 PM
> Subject: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
>
> > Ok, I am a doufus when it comes to investing. Can somebody make sense of
> > this.
> >
> > Here is the background.
> >
> > Oracle wants to buy up PeopleSoft. Thus ensues an epic battle much like
> that
> > in LOTR:ROTK...ok so in this battle I would guess that Sauron would be
> > Oracle and Frodo et al. would be PeopleSoft. I say this because even
> though
> > Oracle8i and beyond are the best databases on the planet their
> applications
> > suck serious wringwraiths....We use 11i Financials...ugh what a disaster
> > (moving from single to multi-org)
> >
> > Anyway, every few months Oracle says they are extending their offer. Ok,
> > duh, Oracle took a hunk they couldn't chew. Watching MS does not make
one
> > MS, I suppose they will need to change their tactics. Regardless if you
go
> > to www.oracle.com/peopleosft <http://www.oracle.com/peopleosft> and
look
> at
> > the press releases you will see that back in October that had 24 some
> > million shares, now only 12...yet they go on to say "tendered in and not
> > withdrawn".
> >
> > Anybody got any clues as to if this means people that once opted in are
> > opting out or if these relate specifically to a period of time between
the
> > two posts. Lawyers are tricky like that....
> >
> > Dec Release snippet
> > "The tender offer was previously set to expire at midnight EST on
> Wednesday,
> > December 31, 2003. As of the close of business on Friday, December 19, a
> > total of 12,395,576 shares had been tendered in and not withdrawn from
the
> > offer. "
> >
> > Oct Release snippet
> > "The tender offer was previously set to expire at midnight EDT on
Friday,
> > October 17, 2003. As of the close of business on Friday, October 10,
2003,
> a
> > total of 24,812,259 shares had been tendered in and not withdrawn from
the
> > offer."
> >
> >
> >
> > <http://intranet>
> >
> >
> > Stephen E. Schuster
> > PeopleSoft Administrator
> > 2000 Ashland Drive
> > Ashland, KY 41101
> >
> >
> > Office Phone 606.920.7447
> > Cell Phone 606.831.4590
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:50 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: Re: Americans fingerprinted at Brazil airport
> >
> > Hmmmm....what kind of name is Camden???? Do we need to send some black
> > suits over to your house?
> >
> > marlon
> >
> > Raymond Camden wrote:
> >
> > >>I have to agree with your sentiments. I think that the last
> > >>place we are going to be vulnerable is our air travel sector.
> > >>We will be attacked somewhere else sometime and then all the
> > >>focus will shift to that. It is idiotic, but that is what is
> > >>happening. I think it is funny that the news media started
> > >>reporting days before New Years Eve about "chatter"
> > >>indicating an attack was imminent, and then nothing happened
> > >>and they were actually reporting that an attack was thwarted
> > >>by our vigilance.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >+1. I've been saying it for a while now (sorry if I sound like a broken
> > >record), but if they attacked small towns, even if they didn't do much
> > >damage, it would cause a lot of fear.
> > >
> > >-rc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > _____
> >
> >
> >
> _____
>
>
>
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