Duffield has hired back a group of PeopleSoft managers led by trusted lieutenant Aneel Bhusri, 42.
Four, including McKee Foods and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, ripped out PeopleSoft and replaced it with Workday.
PeopleSoft stock tripled over the next three years, but growth slowed at the end of 2002.
The last version of PeopleSoft can be accessed online, but it doesn't run on the Web.
Yes, Workday has an unfair advantage since it has been picking-off former PeopleSoft customers!
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But Oracle upped its offer in December, and it was so high Peoplesoft's board couldn't refuse.
His extensive experience includes previous executive positions at Oracle, Taleo, PeopleSoft and Price Waterhouse.
Lots of SAP customers are now Oracle customers because they were running Siebel or PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft meant a lot to Duffield, who built the company from the ground, up.
He runs the company with co-founder Aneel Bhusri, who was previously a top executive at PeopleSoft.
PeopleSoft worked its way up the ladder--always thrilling customers at each rung--and now sells mission-critical supply-chain software.
After Oracle acquired rival PeopleSoft in December 2004, SAP moved fast to begin luring PeopleSoft customers away.
In this highly competitive market, there is no need to fear the merger of Oracle and PeopleSoft.
And indeed the company has been admirably busy partnering with bigwig application vendors like PeopleSoft, SAP and Oracle.
These partnerships are becoming all the more important as IBM sees its biggest partners, like PeopleSoft , J.
Gregoire has also served at PeopleSoft, also acquired by Oracle, and EDS, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard.
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Mr. Duffield, also the co-founder of PeopleSoft, bought the 8-acre lakefront property through the Nevada Pacific Development Corp.
PeopleSoft was bought by Oracle in December 2004, and, somewhat unsurprisingly, SAP snapped up TomorrowNow about a month later.
The company has long been good at this with retailers, but how will it do with Oracle and Peoplesoft?
Just as he did at PeopleSoft, Duffield sends out weekly companywide congratulatory e-mails.
After all, this type of HR strategy was key for the growth of companies like PeopleSoft during the 1990s.
When Peoplesoft's founder, David Duffield, swooped in to rally the troops (customers and employees) that fall, results did improve.
You see, Oracle won a bitter hostile bid against their former company, PeopleSoft.
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PeopleSoft is leasing its human-resource and financial packages to a start-up, called Usinternetworking.
Bhusri talked to product developers and in November told the board PeopleSoft needed to develop new software on the Web.
Oracle had also threatened to force every PeopleSoft customer to move to Oracle, a threat Ellison backed away from later.
Along with SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle form the triumvirate in a market for corporate enterprise software that hasn't been expanding.
Duffield started his first big success, PeopleSoft, at age 47, mortgaging his house to fund what was his fourth startup.
And Workday's co-CEOs are Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield, who used to run software maker PeopleSoft, also bought by Oracle.
PeopleSoft's directors spurned the bid, arguing that most of the shareholders continue to believe that the firm is more valuable.
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