PeopleSoft is in the market to provide the infrastructure for companies to build a collaborative network between their customers, suppliers and employees via the Internet.

This is our opportunity to build deeper relationships with our customers. We see this as a way to provide our customers with the personalized attention they need where they most need it.

Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.

Oracle's offer seeks to enrich Oracle at the expense of PeopleSoft's stockholders, customers and employees, ... We believe that Oracle's proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft would stifle competition and limit customer choice.

Optical component suppliers are happily supplying arms to all equipment vendors engaged in the network build-out.

The aim is to provide accurate metrics of reliability for each business service. Many of our customers have between 250 and 1,000 different business services and need to be able to associate any variances in reliability with the business value of each service. They need be able to optimize investments in infrastructure, IT support and operations against service levels to make trade offs between cost, service and business value