SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion Monday, pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival IBM Corp. abandoned an ...

Business softwaremaker Oracle Corp. said Thursday that it has received the Justice Department's approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems ...

Once Oracle entered the fray, Sun tried to turn up the heat on IBM, which resubmitted its previous offer, only to be outdone by Oracle's latest power play. Now Oracle, traditionally a business ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said regulators need to consider if customers would face fewer choices and higher prices "when the world's biggest proprietary database ...

Oracle's $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems is not going over well with European regulators. In an SEC filing Monday, Sun said the European Commission objected to the "combination of Sun's open ...

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales. John Fowler, the ...

Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems last week is reviving calls for Sun’s open source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation. Oracle is one of the top corporate ...

"Incrementally, starting this quarter, we will be more direct," said Oracle president Charles Phillips during the company's third-quarter earnings call Thursday. Noting that Sun relied on the channel ...

Sun Microsystems reported a sharp drop in revenue for its third fiscal quarter, as the company battled uncertainty about its future along with the global recession. Reports that Sun was up for sale ...