SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 20, 2009 Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per ...

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 ...

Oracle Corporation is to buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion, just a few weeks after a deal by IBM to buy Sun fell apart. It looks like Oracle will ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was written by CNET's Stephen Shankland. Through one important piece of corporate computing jargon - "integration" - Oracle has found a justification for its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun ...

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 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 ...

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.

After announcing earlier Wednesday that it closed its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle followed up with a previously scheduled Webcast during which executives laid out the rationale ...

Database giant Oracle announced Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share—roughly $7.4 billion. The two companies reached an agreement after an unsuccessful bid by IBM fell short at ...

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.