J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft deal came in fits and starts By Jennifer Beauprez Denver Post Business Writer Sunday, June 08, 2003 - Robert Dutkowsky flew out to his son's high school graduation in Boston on Thursday thinking that after eight months of cloak-and- dagger negotiations with PeopleSoft Inc., his work was done. It wasn't. The next day, just four days after the chief executive of J.D. Edwards & Co. inked a $1.7 billion deal to sell the Denver software firm to competitor PeopleSoft, Oracle Corp. swooped in. Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle made an unsolicited $5.1 billion bid to take over PeopleSoft...