Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Posted by Vic Laurie
April 20, 2009

Having been jilted by IBM, Sun Microsystems went looking for another suitor and found Oracle. ZDNet reports:

Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java “is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired.”

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