We believe Oracle is using the entire process -- tender offer, antitrust and proxy solicitation -- in an attempt to damage our company, ... Don't underestimate the significant additional value PeopleSoft can create once the disruption from Oracle's hostile activities has ended.
Although we have been able to meet or exceed our financial projections since Oracle launched their hostile tender offer more than a year ago, the extensive publicity of the antitrust trial during the last month of our quarter was impossible to completely overcome,