June 16, 2010 3:45 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Oracle acquisitions,
Oracle-Sun deal,
Sun MicrosystemsThe last person who would want to hear ‘Sun acquisition' and ‘fail' in the same sentence is Larry Ellison. But if revelations continue to emerge about the possibility of the Sun merger not being the success Ellison had planned for, it may be hard for him to avoid.
Larry is no newcomer to...
May 20, 2010 8:01 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Oracle acquisitions,
Oracle database security,
SecernoLast year Oracle made six acquisitions. With an announcement today that it plans to close on the purchase of database firewall provider Secerno in June, Oracle will make six acquisitions in just the first half of 2010.
The big one...
May 14, 2010 1:23 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Larry Ellison,
Oracle acquisitionsSAP has had no problem criticizing Oracle's growth strategy for favoring acquisition over innovation. However, we recently questioned whether that opinion would change with two new SAP CEOs in the picture. Co-CEO Bill McDermott, who...
April 7, 2010 1:35 PM
Posted by: Barney Beal
Oracle acquisitions,
Oracle hardware decisions,
Oracle-Sun dealIf you tuned in to Oracle's four-hour webcast on its plans for Sun in the wake of the acquisition, you may have strained to hear what
March 17, 2010 3:51 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Larry Ellison,
Oracle acquisitionsOracle recently made one of its biggest and boldest advancements as a company with an acquisition -- the buyout of Sun Microsystems. The deal handed the software giant a handful of industry jewels including Java,...
March 10, 2010 4:37 PM
Posted by: Ed Scannell
open source,
Oracle acquisitions,
Sun Microsystems
November 20, 2009 5:51 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Oracle acquisitions,
Oracle-Sun dealThe European Union (EU) has not been making Oracle's acquisition of Sun an easy one, putting the "acquisition machine" in quite a different situation than it's used to.
The deal, which has already been approved by the
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