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<footnotes>
   <footnote id="F1">Automatic disposal of restricted stock pursuant to 10b5-1 trading plan.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F2">Stock option vests 25% annually.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F3">See Column 9 for the Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned.          </footnote>
   <footnote id="F4">Stock option vests 20% annually on the date of grant.          </footnote>
   <footnote id="F5">Vests monthly over two years.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F6">Stock option vests 1/16 per quarter over four years.          </footnote>
   <footnote id="F7">Stock option vests 25% after 1 year and quarterly thereafter for 3 years (12 quarters).          </footnote>
   <footnote id="F8">Mr. Wilmington has the right to buy 1,261,359 shares of PeopleSoft Common Stock which includes the transaction reported in Table
II, Column 9.          </footnote>
   <footnote id="F9">100,000 shares vests 25% on 1 yr. anniversary and quarterly thereafter and 60,000 shares vests 50% on the 1st and 2nd anniversari
es.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F10">500,000 shares vests 25% on 1 yr. anniversary and quarterly thereafter and 25,000 shares vests 50% on the 1st and 2nd anniversar
ies.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F11">Stock option vests annually over two years.</footnote>
</footnotes>
<remarks></remarks>    <ownerSignature>
       <signatureName>Margaret Budd, by P.O.A.</signatureName>
       <signatureDate>2003-10-31</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

