The acquisition would allow Oracle to combine the code between the two, potentially making it a stronger offering. Security also is an important component of Sun's Solaris operating system.

If you figure in a relatively modest 55 percent discount from Oracle for the same 72-core Sun E20K, you get 54 X $40K X .45= $972K license price. Figure 22 percent of that for support, that's $123K.

Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both took the stage at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference Sunday evening to offer reassurances that Sun technologies will not ...

Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both took the stage at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference Sunday evening to offer reassurances that Sun technologies will not ...

Oracle has not been shy, discreet, or even concerned about the nature of their relationship with Sun: it is simply about installed base, as they have no intention ...

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— and most ...

Sun also distributed marketing material on Wednesday that asserts Oracle's supposed NetBeans endorsement "will fuel innovation through open-source software and community-based development" and ...

Oracle Corp's <ORCL.O> purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc <JAVA.O> is expected to shake up the tech sector as it turns the software giant into a player in the hardware market and gives it new clout ...

Right now, Sun cannot say much about what it is doing, he said. (Oracle’s Larry Ellison has stated publicly that he has every intention of completing the Sun buyout.

Oracle took the unusual, silence-breaking step last week of running an advertisement promising to spend more on Solaris and UltraSparc development than Sun does now, in an apparent effort to ...

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun does a lot more than just answer the MySQL competitive issue. Oracle now has ownership of the full and complete software stack, from OpenSolaris, up through Java ...