While Oracle and Sun Microsystems are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a big boost for Java, others are not so sure. Some with stake in the Java ecosystem are questioning what kind of control ...

The seeds for the infringement suit against Google and Android were sown at Sun, but it took Oracle's financial power to bring them to fruition. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

When Oracle announced it was buying Sun and taking stewardship of Java there were a lot of concerned open-source software fans. But, two and a half years on, Oracle is doing a fine job of steering ...

As I mentioned last week there are some obvious stress points in the Oracle/Sun merger - support being on top of the list. Among the personal emails responses I got to this - often, by the way, from ...

In its first year in charge of the former Sun Microsystems technologies, Oracle stepped on plenty of toes, as the company dueled with both the open source community and Google. But Oracle also has ...

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经济观察网 记者 张婷 北京时间4月20日晚间，Oracle（甲骨文）宣布，已经与Sun签署最终协议，以每股9.50美元的现金价格收购Sun普通股。按此价格计算，此次甲骨文的收购总额为74亿美元，而除去Sun的现金及债务不计，该交易的净值为56亿美元。 “此次对Sun的收购 ...

Google CEO Larry Page will take the stand again in the company's courtroom tussle with Oracle over whether Android infringes on Java patents and copyrights, but the story line for the search giant is ...

Less clear is the future for Sun's hardware product lines, especially its server products, and what the acquisition means for Sun's hardware channel partners. On Monday, Oracle and Sun stunned the ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems four years ago, it quickly and ruthlessly started tearing out the unprofitable stuff. Sun was a company run by engineers, a Xerox-PARC-like outfit where a cool idea ...

Oracle wants to be like IBM -- the IBM of the 1960s. A series of Oracle executives took turns Wednesday outlining the company's plans for integrating Sun Microsystems' hardware and software with ...

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