Oracle’s planned $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems appeared to be gaining favor in Europe, after the company said it would to continue investing in Sun’s competing database software, to ...

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 ...

With Thursday's stamp of approval from the European Union, Oracle's nine-month effort to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion is nearly a done deal (Approval from authorities in Russian and China ...

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 ...

You can say this about Oracle, things are never dull with CEO Larry Ellison & Co. This year included Oracle's $7.3 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems after nearly a year of regulatory maneuvering ...