IBM jumps slick on Oracle
Could IBM be Peoplesoft’s white knight? A just-announced deal will pump 1 billion dollars into building a middleware layer inside PeopleSoft’s applications. That’s a lot of money, even for Dr. Evil! Our team coverage analyzes the deal itself, and what customers think of it (hint: giddy as schoolgirls).
IBM has been making some interesting moves lately. I like it. But $1 Billion sure seems like a lot of money to build a Websphere (J2EE) interface to PeopleSoft.