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OPINION: PeopleSoft and Oracle: The Antitrust Dogs Turn.

By James Gattuso, The Heritage Foundation Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 13--It was only a couple of years ago that Larry Ellison, the charismatic CEO of Oracle Corp., was urging the dogs of antitrust to chase down Bill Gates and Microsoft. How things have changed. Somewhere along the way, the pups got loose and turned on him. Now Oracle itself may wind up feeling the antitrust bite.

At issue is Oracle's effort to acquire PeopleSoft, a competing supplier of business software -- a move Justice Department staff recently said it opposes.

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