Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

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1. Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Oracle-Sun data centre products on 27 Jan. before a packed auditorium here on the bayside campus of the world's second-largest software maker. Actually, Oracle from today on will need to be described as a full-service IT products and services provider, along the same lines as IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The $7.4 billion (£4.5bn) acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a nine-month-long legal headache for Oracle that ended earlier in the day, now qualifies Oracle to make a complete change in its business model. (Read Full Article)

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