Peoplesoft Comments On Oracle’s Board Nominees

Peoplesoft Comments On
Oracle’s Nominees To The Peoplesoft Board

PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) today commented on Oracle Corporation’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) announcement that it has submitted a slate of nominees for election to the PeopleSoft Board of Directors:

On November 10th the PeopleSoft Board of Directors rejected Oracle’s tender offer stating that they believed PeopleSoft is worth substantially more than Oracle’s $24 per share offer. Oracle’s only response has been to repeatedly state that its $24 offer is “best and final.”

Based on the numerous conversations we have had with the Company’s largest stockholders, our Board is convinced that a majority of our stockholders agree with us that Oracle’s $24 offer substantially undervalues PeopleSoft. We believe that Oracle has nominated this slate to allow Oracle to purchase PeopleSoft for an inadequate price that does not reflect the Company’s real value.

PeopleSoft will continue its focus on delivering the highest possible value to our stockholders. We entered the fourth quarter with a robust pipeline and a solid plan that positions us for sustained growth in 2005 and beyond. We are a vibrant, strong company with a focused, motivated management team and employee base dedicated to executing on the Company’s plan.

About PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) is the world’s second largest provider of enterprise application software with 12,750 customers in more than 25 industries and 150 countries. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that state PeopleSoft’s intentions, beliefs, expectations, or predictions for the future. Forward-looking statements often include use of the future tense, words such as “will,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “expects,” and similar conditional or forward-looking words and phrases. You are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. All forward-looking statements are only as of the date they are made and PeopleSoft undertakes no obligation to update or revise them. Forward-looking statements in this press release include those relating to PeopleSoft’s anticipated future prospects, actions and performance, and the anticipated proxy contest. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. These risks, assumptions and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the costs and disruption to PeopleSoft’s business arising from the Oracle tender offer and related litigation; the Company’s ability to successfully complete the integration of J.D. Edwards into PeopleSoft and to achieve anticipated synergies; economic and political conditions in the U.S. and abroad; the ability to complete and deliver products and services within currently estimated time frames and budgets; the ability to manage expenses effectively; the ability to achieve revenue from products and services that are under development; competitive and pricing pressures; and other risks referenced from time to time in PeopleSoft’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, each as filed with the SEC and available without charge at www.sec.gov and www.peoplesoft.com.

Important Additional Information
PeopleSoft’s Board of Directors will be soliciting proxies for use at the 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and any adjournment or postponement thereof, to vote in favor of a slate of directors to be nominated by the Board of Directors and to vote on any other matters that properly come before the 2005 Annual Meeting. Promptly after filing its definitive proxy statement for the 2005 Annual Meeting with the SEC, PeopleSoft will mail the 2005 Proxy Statement and a WHITE Proxy Card to each PeopleSoft stockholder entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting.

PeopleSoft has engaged Innisfree M&A Incorporated to assist it in soliciting proxies from its stockholders. PeopleSoft has agreed to pay customary compensation to Innisfree M&A Incorporated for such services and to indemnify Innisfree M&A Incorporated and certain related persons against certain liabilities relating to or arising out of the engagement. Certain representatives of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co., financial advisors to PeopleSoft, and directors, officers and employees of PeopleSoft may solicit proxies for the 2005 Annual Meeting, although no additional compensation will be paid in connection with any such solicitation.

PeopleSoft has filed a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 regarding Oracle’s tender offer that contains information regarding the potential interests of members of the Board of Directors and members of management in the tender offer. Information regarding securities ownership by certain members of the Board of Directors and certain members of management as of February 10, 2004 is contained in PeopleSoft’s definitive proxy statement for the 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, dated February 20, 2004. PeopleSoft stockholders should read the Schedule 14D-9 and the 2005 Proxy Statement when it is filed with the SEC (including any amendments to such documents) because these documents contain (or will contain) important information. The 2005 Proxy Statement (when filed), the 2004 Proxy Statement, the Schedule 14D-9 and other public filings made by PeopleSoft with the SEC are available without charge from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and from PeopleSoft at www.peoplesoft.com .

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