Here"s a nice commentary by By David Kirkpatrick, FORTUNE.COM
Thank you, Larry Ellison. You"ve just inaugurated another extended period of technology industry drama. Oracle"s hostile bid to pay $5.1 billion in cash for enterprise software company PeopleSoft may not generate quite the chaos as Hewlett-Packard"s prolonged merger dance with Compaq, but then again it might get close. After all, that saga had no character quite so colorful-and quotable-as you.