Plenty of people have been cautiously optimistic about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. Many, like myself, have resigned ourselves to the idea — and have been hoping against hope that the fallout wouldn’t ...

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions this week bluntly told its legacy Sun solution providers that they need to accept the fact that Oracle, and not Sun, is now their vendor partner, and promised to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion Monday, pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival IBM Corp. abandoned an ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said regulators need to consider if customers would face fewer choices and higher prices "when the world's biggest proprietary database ...

Last month the promised head-on collision between Oracle and the European Commission ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. This means in all likelihood that the EU will give its seal of approval ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion Monday, trumping rival IBM Corp.'s attempt to buy one of Silicon Valley's best known — ...