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’s planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems appeared to be gaining favor in Europe, after the company said it would to continue investing in Sun’s competing database software, to ...

Oracle Corporation, the large software database company, said Monday it will acquire the server company Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share, or about $7.4 billion. It brings together two iconic Silicon ...

With Thursday's stamp of approval from the European Union, Oracle's nine-month effort to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion is nearly a done deal (Approval from authorities in Russian and China ...

The last chapter for Sun Microsystems closes, and the next for Oracle begins as the software company adds hardware to its portfolio. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems on Monday it took a leap into the hardware realm. And so the question: Can software-centric database and applications vendor Oracle succeed with Sun’s hardware ...

You can say this about Oracle, things are never dull with CEO Larry Ellison & Co. This year included Oracle's $7.3 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems after nearly a year of regulatory maneuvering ...

After intense antitrust investigation focused on the MySQL database, the European Commission gives an official OK for Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...

Two of Silicon Valley’s leading players, Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., pledged a renewal of their on-again, off-again alliance yesterday, while taking shots at common rivals such as ...

Two weeks ago, the chief executives at Oracle and Sun Microsystems united on stage to tout their partnership, but already the two companies aren't seeing eye to eye on one issue. The companies differ ...