October 8, 2009 8:28 PM
Posted by: badarrow
appliances,
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Linux,
Oracle,
Sun,
Sun MicrosystemsFor those who attribute Machiavellian motivations to everything Larry Ellison does, here’s a doozy of a theory.
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September 10, 2009 7:50 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
MySQL,
Oracle,
SPARC,
Sun MicrosystemsSo, you were wondering what Oracle will do with Sun's venerable hardware franchise? Apparently a lot. A new ad in The Wall Street...
September 3, 2009 1:51 PM
Posted by: badarrow
barbara d,
Database,
IT channel products and technologies,
MySQL,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsAs many expected, the European Commission isn't smitten with Oracle's planned buyout of Sun. And the regulars want to take a closer, deeper look at the $7.4 billion deal which already won approval by the much less picky U.S. regulators.
August 5, 2009 2:59 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
channel conflict,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsTo say that competitors are circling Sun Microsystems' customers and partners like vultures is probably overstating the case. But not by much.
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April 21, 2009 3:09 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dell,
Hewlett-Packard,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Lotus,
Oracle,
Scott McNealy,
Storage,
Sun MicrosystemsHere's a completely non-scientific list of my top five questions arising from Oracle's $7.4 billion buy out of Sun Microsystems.
5: How could it have been surprising that Oracle was the white...
April 20, 2009 11:56 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsWell that didn't take long.
Oracle is buying Sun, in a deal worth about $7.4 billion, the company said in a statement released early Monday. Oracle is offering $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at about $7.4 billion,...