based company prepared for the monthlong trial. IBM realized it would face "very substantial losses in revenue" if Oracle buys PeopleSoft because Oracle's accounting and personnel software won't ...

Reports have swirled for weeks that Oracle was poised to buy JBoss, Zend and Sleepycat ... and last year the database kingpin bought PeopleSoft, Oblix, Thor Technologies, OctetString, Retek ...