With Sun, Oracle Says It Has All the Pieces

The New York Times (Jan 26 2010)

1. Oracle, having spent the last nine months fighting rivals and regulators in order to own Sun Microsystems, has pushed itself into the middle of the scrum of technology heavyweights all jostling for the same corporate customers. Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Oracle's chief, Lawrence J. Ellison, left, hopes Scott G. McNealy, Sun's chairman, will stay. Related Times Topics: Oracle Corporation | Sun Microsystems Inc. The $7.4 billion deal, which gives Oracle a vast hardware business for the first time, pits it against Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M., Dell and Cisco Systems, all of which have made a flurry of acquisitions and alliances. Many of these moves broadened the companies’ products and services from their traditional specialties, like databases, computers or networking equipment. Each company wants to be able to claim to prospective customers that it, and it alone, has more of the parts to be an end-to-end service provider. (Read Full Article)

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