In April 2009, Oracle Corp. made what at the time looked like a bad deal. Or at least that was the conventional wisdom. It announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 ...

The company unveiled its first-ever servers based on Intel microprocessors, offering customers and solution providers a choice of Linux and Solaris operating systems. "This is a new hardware direction ...

Sun Microsystems’ mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to become established, when the company’s Solaris OS could have won out instead, Sun co-founder and former CEO ...

Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy and President Ed Zander held a meeting where they discussed the future of ...

The $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was approved by Sun stockholders on Thursday morning, Sun said. Oracle will acquire Sun stock for $9.50 per share. Approximately 62 percent ...

BOSTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp's purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to shake up the tech sector as it turns the software giant into a player in the hardware market and gives it new ...