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Trade group: Oracle-Sun good news for Linux
News Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin has given a warm welcome to Oracle's purchase of Sun, saying it is "good news" for Linux. The purchase of Sun, announced on Monday, means Oracle will take over the Solaris Unix-based operating system, as well as...
[April 22, 2009, 17:48]
Oracle-Sun deal brings an integration challenge
News Through one important piece of corporate computing jargon — 'integration' — Oracle has found a justification for its $7.4bn acquisition of Sun. Sun's stock plunged after IBM's attempted acquisition of Sun fell apart, but with an Oracle acquisition...
[April 21, 2009, 8:36]
Oracle buys Sun - but who really wins?
Blog The big news this week this is undoubtedly the $7.4 billion purchase of the troubled server company Sun Microsystems by database specialist Oracle. Oracle is a software company first and foremost, while Sun's revenues stem mostly from hardware.
[April 23, 2009, 9:20]
Oracle's Sun buy gets US green light
News Oracle said on Thursday that the US Department of Justice has approved its plan to buy Sun. Oracle announced its $7.4bn (£4.5bn) bid for Sun back in April, following Sun's rejection of overtures from IBM.
[August 21, 2009, 8:24]
Sun and Oracle go Windows bashing... again.
News Oracle Corp.and Sun Microsystems Inc.on Monday said they are joining forces to make it easier for larger computers to access database information. The companies said they will incorporate Oracle's database software into Sun's Solaris operating system.
[December 15, 1998, 9:29]
Oracle's Sun day creates new world for enterprise
Leader Oracle's agreement to buy Sun for $7.4bn is largely unexpected and entirely game-changing. Taking things at face value, Oracle's reasons for buying Sun are clear and logical. Post-acquisition, Oracle will be able to provide everything for the...
[April 20, 2009, 17:24]
Sun and Oracle take on Exchange
News 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 suite running on relatively low-cost Sun hardware.
[May 20, 2003, 13:51]
Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata
News Database giant Oracle has drawn on Sun hardware technology in a new version of its Exadata data-warehousing appliance, which it describes as significantly faster than the previous model. In an announcement on Tuesday, Oracle said the Exadata...
[September 16, 2009, 17:01]
Sun Technology Drives Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions
White Papers By running Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications Suite on the Sun Solaris platform, they have been able to transform their entire enterprise computing infrastructure into a powerful and efficient self-service environment for their students...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Sun Case Study: Oracle
White Papers Oracle Corporation is using the Sun Customer Ready systems (CRS) program from Sun Microsystems to save enormous amounts of time and costs in deploying new software testing systems. Sun has factory-integrated and delivered 35 system configurations...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Oracle not yielding to EU with Sun buy, says report
News Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. EU antitrust regulators are concerned that Oracle, which has a large business in proprietary software...
[November 4, 2009, 7:24]
Sun/Oracle plans - don't get excited says MS
News Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Monday that they are working on a system where the OS is virtually invisible and that their new strategy for accessing data through a network is better than Microsoft's plans to put mini...
[December 16, 1998, 16:16]
Former MySQL chief tells EC: Let Oracle buy Sun
News Former MySQL leader Mårten Mickos on Thursday urged European Union regulators to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun and its MySQL database group, arguing that further waiting undermines the very competitiveness the EU is trying to protect.
[October 9, 2009, 8:25]
US extends probe into Oracle-Sun deal
News The US Department of Justice has decided to extend its investigation into Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun, according to a brief statement put out late on Friday. Sun investors will vote in a special shareholder meeting scheduled for 16 July on...
[June 29, 2009, 9:14]
EU deepens its probe into Oracle-Sun deal
News The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned £4.5bn purchase of Sun. The commission pointed out that Oracle's proprietary database products go up directly against MySQL open-source software, which is overseen...
[September 3, 2009, 18:06]
EC voices formal objections to Oracle-Sun deal
News The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Oracle, highlighting its concerns over the enterprise software giant's takeover of Sun. Oracle's $7.4bn (£5.1bn) purchase of Sun was announced in April.
[November 10, 2009, 7:58]
Web services unite Sun and Oracle
News Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification. The participation of Sun and Oracle in the meeting gives hope to industry watchers that a...
[May 9, 2003, 12:24]
Microsoft bigwig slams Oracle and Sun
News Another day, another volley in the verbal feud between Microsoft and rivals Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Vergnes said that any company would find it easy to take advantage of the thicket of European regulatory rules that govern competition...
[October 13, 2000, 14:59]
NetBeans drives a wedge between Sun and Oracle
News Two weeks ago, the chief executives at Oracle and Sun united on stage to tout their partnership, but already the two companies aren't seeing eye to eye on one issue. The companies differ on whether Oracle supports Sun's NetBeans software, which is...
[January 26, 2006, 8:50]
HP surprised by Oracle's Sun purchase
Blog All the more gratifying then to catch out a few of them at the Technology@Work event in Berlin on Monday, with the news that Oracle was buying Sun. We will also have to wait and see what Oracle wants to do with the Sun hardware, he said.
[April 21, 2009, 8:28]
