But it's Siebel's customers who are really going to win. Unlike PeopleSoft, or any of the other Oracle acquisitions, this was a sale of truly distressed assets. Siebel has been in trouble for a while, and even the arrival of George "I am not an interim CEO" Shaheen earlier this year to take over from short-timer Mike Lawrie couldn't put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.