The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, if it is closed as expected, would give Oracle a company whose business model has been rocky but would bring it some of the industry's top hardware and ...

Oracle acquires Sun- that came out of left field. Well not quite. Fellow Irregular Josh Greenbaum talked about Oracle 'completing the picture' with a Sun acquisition back in 2003. Yes - SIX years ago.

Oracle and Sun Microsystems on Tuesday launched their latest broadside against Microsoft's hegemony in office software for small and medium-sized businesses, in the form of an Oracle collaboration ...

Three and a half years after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, experts continue to debate whether the move was a good one for the world’s largest database company. Adding to the controversy, evidence ...

In a filing with the SEC, Sun reveals a shareholder revolt against the Oracle acquisition. Nonetheless, the deal will likely go through. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

Yesterday, Oracle agreed to acquire Sun for $7.4 billion. The move surprised analysts since Oracle - an enterprise software company - has until now avoided hardware, Sun's core business. The deal even ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s scramble to find a suitor landed the slumping server and software maker in the arms of Oracle Corp., which agreed to pay $7.4 billion in cash for Sun in a startling marriage ...

Oracle CEO Safra Catz took the stand on Monday in Oracle's ongoing trial in which it's suing Google for billions of dollars. And Catz dropped a few interesting tidbits while she was being questioned.

Before Oracle spent $7.4 billion to buy Sun Microsystems in 2009, Oracle first asked HP to help it buy and divide Sun, reports PC World. That's what HP's Ann Livermore said in her testimony in the HP ...

Some investors have been complaining, and filing suit, over the proposed Oracle acquisition of Sun, claiming that the latter is going too cheaply. Now, as the SEC filings are appearing, Sun's position ...

To compete with IBM and HP, Sun will bundle Oracle's database with higher-end Unix servers, subsidize customer fees. Photo: Best buddies McNealy and Ellison Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Orace Corp. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Tuesday to sell the company’s upgraded database and storage server product, Exadata Database Machine V2, with “Sun Oracle” prominently displayed on it. The ...