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Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4B
This makes me quite happy. I have always been a big fan of Sun but after having worked at Oracle for a while I’m excited at the prospect of having Sun servers running much of Oracle’s OnDemand services in their data centers.
Venturebeat is reporting,
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 Valley powerhouse tech companies that have long shared a spiritual alliance, initially to resist dominance by Microsoft during the 1990s.
The full article can be found here