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.

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 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 ...

One year later, most of the open source projects Sun invested in that weren’t productized have been discontinued and left for the community to pick up. Other projects continue, but Oracle has ...

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 ...

He claims that Oracle is taking the strategy that IBM took in 1960s. This statement really scared me because the same strategy will lead to the same dead-end and a $%&*&^ software.

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 ...

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. 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&mdash; and most ...