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 ...

Business softwaremaker Oracle Corp. said Thursday that it has received the Justice Department's approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems ...

The sum of Oracle's and Sun's management technology portfolios will provide much greater value than the stand-alone parts, experts say Oracle’s $7.4 billion bid for Sun might win customer favor, ...

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 ...

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...

The European Commission has issued its formal “statement of objections” over Oracle’s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday. The move is a procedural step in ...

Oracle will also revamp Sun's sales efforts. It will hire 2,000 additional salespeople, have teams that specialize in tape storage and servers, and reward salespeople based on the profit margins of ...

Oracle's $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems is not going over well with European regulators. In an SEC filing Monday, Sun said the European Commission objected to the "combination of Sun's open ...

On Thursday, the allies--both Microsoft rivals--said in a statement that they had developed joint sales training and telemarketing campaigns globally designed to steer customers to use the recently ...