Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems

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Oracle has agreed to purchase Sun Microsystems in a sale that sees a little more money than what Sun would've seen had they been bought by IBM. Get the details on the $7.4 billion deal at AppleInsider.com.

And check out MacRumors.com that talks about two occasions that Apple and Oracle considered merging, plus how Oracle and Sun can be more like Apple (hardware and software/OS).

Posted at 07:09AM Apr 21, 2009 by Heath McKnight in Inform | Comments[1]

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Sun had no hope of survival by the late 1990s when McNeely Locked-in on selling "boxes" and stopped listening to the marketplace. Sun created huge value with Solaris and Java, but had no idea how to capture that value so it just kept doing what it always did. Eventually, the market didn't see the value in the boxes any more, and the value of Solaris and Java had been frittered away. A lesson for any company that it must adapt to market needs or it will be squashed. Read more at http://WWW.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com

Posted by adam hartung on April 21, 2009 at 06:54 PM MDT #