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Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: In an exclusive Face to Face interview, BEA Systems CEO Alfred Chuang tells ZDNet's Dan Farber that Oracle's bid to take over PeopleSoft "doesn't make any sense" and explains why his company's software will become the enterprise equivalent of Microsoft Office.

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