• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 31, 2012

Remember David Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft, which Oracle bought in 2004 for $10.3 billion in cash after a hostile takeover. Soon after, he founded a company called Workday, which offers human resources software. Google struck a deal with Workday to provides its online HR software. News of the deal follows Workday's initial public offering.