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 ...

Senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition 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 ...