Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced in a surprise move this morning that it would acquire Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $7.4 billion. With the move, Oracle now competes with nearly all of the largest technology companies, including Microsoft in middleware and server operating systems, SAP and Salesforce.com in business applications, IBM, Cisco, HP, and Dell in [...]
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