SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc reported a fourth quarter loss on Friday, as the computer server maker's planned acquisition by Oracle Corp nears expected completion. Sun, which is ...

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 go ...

There are many reasons Sun wasn’t able to survive as an independent company. Chief among these are Sun’s hardware strategy and failure to execute after acquisitions. Oracle’s surprising $7.4 billion ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems on Monday it took a leap into the hardware realm. And so the question: Can software-centric database and applications vendor Oracle succeed with Sun’s hardware ...

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions this week bluntly told its legacy Sun solution providers that they need to accept the fact that Oracle, and not Sun, is now their vendor partner, and promised to ...

With Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems stalled by European Union deliberations, industry dignitaries offered mixed perspectives recently on the ultimate fate of the deal and what it ...

The first and most obvious benefit to Oracle will be with enterprise database offerings. Solaris running on SPARC-based equipment has always been a preferred platform for Oracle databases. This ...

Two weeks ago, the chief executives at Oracle and Sun Microsystems united on stage to tout their partnership, but already the two companies aren't seeing eye to eye on one issue. The companies differ ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 — ...

Senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and ...

If you had forgotten that Oracle was in the hardware business, it’s easy to understand why, as Oracle has not exactly promoted the business very well. Oracle’s hardware is descended from Sun ...