EDUPAGE> Edupage, February 27, 2004
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004
U.S. Sues to Prevent Oracle Takeover of PeopleSoft
GAO Questions the 50-Percent Rule
VeriSign in Legal Battle with ICANN
UK to Refocus Distance Higher Education Project
U.S. SUES TO PREVENT ORACLE TAKEOVER OF PEOPLESOFT
Seven states and the Department of Justice have filed a lawsuit in
federal court in California to block Oracle's hostile takeover bid of
competitor PeopleSoft. R. Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general of
antitrust, called the decision to oppose the acquisition "the right
thing to do" because the deal would inhibit competition and likely lead
to higher consumer prices. Pate said that without PeopleSoft, the
market would be reduced to Oracle and SAP. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
disagreed, saying hundreds of companies provide products similar to
theirs. A statement from the Justice Department said the proposed
takeover would violate antitrust laws, and the states of Hawaii,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, and Texas
joined the lawsuit, saying that competition in their states would be
damaged if Oracle were allowed to acquire PeopleSoft. Craig Conway, CEO
of PeopleSoft, said Oracle should end its pursuit of PeopleSoft in
light of the government's position.
New York Times, 27 February 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/technology/27oracle.html
GAO QUESTIONS THE 50-PERCENT RULE
The General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report this week on a
Department of Education pilot project designed to test the necessity of
the 50-percent rule. The rule says that for students to be eligible to
receive federal financial aid, they must be enrolled at institutions
that offer fewer than half of their courses as distance courses or that
have fewer than half their students enrolled as distance students. The
rule was intended to discourage fraud in distance education programs,
but the GAO said the pilot project showed no increase in the level of
fraud at institutions that were exempted from the rule for the purposes
of the pilot. The report also said that eliminating the 50-percent rule
without instituting other measures to prevent fraud might result in
higher incidence of fraud and that eliminating the rule could draw
significant numbers of students into distance education programs,
increasing the potential cost of federal financial aid for those
students.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 February 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/02/2004022703n.htm
VERISIGN IN LEGAL BATTLE WITH ICANN
VeriSign has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), complaining about ICANN's role in
the management of the Internet and seeking permission to restore the
Site Finder service. In the suit, VeriSign alleges that ICANN has taken
the position of the "de facto regulator of the domain name system," a
role it was not intended to have. Last fall, ICANN demanded that
VeriSign, which operates the .com and .net domains, disable a Site
Finder service that redirected users who entered nonfunctioning URLs to
a VeriSign Web site. ICANN had said the service was disruptive to
network administrators and software developers. The suit asks that
ICANN not be allowed to prevent the relaunch of the Site Finder service
and that ICANN treat VeriSign in a "fair, reasonable, and equitable
fashion."
CNET, 26 February 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5165982.html
UK TO REFOCUS DISTANCE HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECT
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) said it will
begin a series of discussions aimed at "restructuring" the UK
e-Universities Worldwide (UKeU), which has failed to meet expectations.
The UKeU was launched last spring, with the backing of 12 colleges and
universities as well as that of government and industry, as a project
to develop Internet-based education that would attract students from
around the world. The HEFCE cited several problems with UKeU, including
the fact that many UK universities offer online education outside the
scope of UKeU. The council also noted that many of the students
expected to take advantage of the online courses have instead gone to
the UK and enrolled at colleges and universities. According to the
HEFCE, "The new arrangements will place greater emphasis on public good
rather than commercial objectives."
BBC, 27 February 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3494048.stm
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