Microsoft is offering some cool PeopleSoft transitions. Existing PeopleSoft customers are directed to Microsoft's Great Plains and Axapta.
PeopleSoft Enterprise -> Great Plains
PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne -> MBS Axapta
PeopleSoft World -> MBS Axapta
There would also be transitions towards Solomon and Navision.
Microsoft is expected to give discounts on software, cut down licence fee, reducing the cost of support programs for an year etc... for these PeopleSoft Customers.
All this time, Microsoft has been a fence sitter in the ERP market. However, currently among the three major database vendors, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, only one has an ERP application. IBM seems at the moment not focused on the ERP products sector. This may bring in Microsoft in the market. They have already started the ball rolling by acquiring Great Plains Software in the United States and Navision in Europe. And no prizes for guessing whose pie Microsoft would eat first … Oracle’s of course!