In April 2009, Oracle Corp. made what at the time looked like a bad deal. Or at least that was the conventional wisdom. It announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 ...

Oracle, the software giant that has been gobbling up companies amid the recession, hit a regulatory speed bump in its $7.4 billion bid to acquire Sun Microsystems as Europe's antitrust watchdog ...

Oracle is preparing to launch a major migration of portals that serve customers and technologies gained through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Given the recent track record of both Oracle and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software giant Oracle Corp has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy computer maker Sun Microsystems, clearing a key hurdle in the companies' plan to close the $7.4 billion deal ...

The first and most obvious benefit to Oracle will be with enterprise database offerings. Solaris running on SPARC-based equipment has always been a preferred platform for Oracle databases. This ...