The big news this week this is undoubtedly the $7.4 billion purchase of the troubled server company Sun Microsystems by database specialist Oracle. But, given the very different nature of the two ...

Legacy Sun solution providers are more and more likely to be bringing non-Sun hardware to their customer base in the wake of Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Meanwhile, legacy Oracle solution providers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the favorite water-cooler games of the enterprise computing set over the past month or so has been, "Whither Sun Microsystems?" Now the first phase of that game is over. The answer, as of this ...

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 ...

Two former Sun leaders have sparred off this week in the Oracle vs Google case that's shaking the Android universe to its knees with its implications. Though we first heard about this Oracle business ...

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 ...