Gates' eMail Discussed PeopleSoft StakeJune 24, 2004 [From internetnews.com]SAN FRANCISCO -- Like a pebble thrown into a still pond, Oracle's Bill Gates, who after learning about the hostile
takeover last June, fired off an e-mail to Microsoft (Quote, Chart) CEO
Steve Ballmer asking to consider taking a financial stake in
Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft or acquiring Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) software market leader SAP (Quote, Chart). The e-mail was
revealed during Oracle's first day of defending itself against the U.S.
Department of Justice's antitrust claims.
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