| And who said it wouldn't last?
After a contentious, protracted courtship, the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger has hit its one-year anniversary mark, with the post-merger marriage going relatively smoothly. PeopleSoft customers have not defected en masse in search of better software applications, and Oracle executives have touted a relatively quick integration of the two former rivals since the deal closed last year on Jan. 7.
But while the operations of the newly combined company have largely moved ahead as planned, the overall success of the merger in its first year has been a mixed bag. The company's stock remains lackluster, and uncertainty still persists as to whether PeopleSoft customers will ultimately adopt Oracle's software once the technologies are integrated into its line of Fusion applications that are slated to hit the market in 2008.
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