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Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:17:28 GMT
Scott McNealy on Nonprofits and Bailout
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:41:05 GMT
What's New: Oracle surprises critics with MySQL move
[at Financial Times] - Oracle 's latest announcements will surprise critics who expected the company to sideline "awkward" products such as MySQL and Java, inherited from its 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems .
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:55:31 GMT
Brussels approves $7.4bn Oracle-Sun dea
[at Financial Times] - Europe's leading antitrust watchdog on Thursday gave its unconditional approval to the planned $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle .
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:00:36 GMT
The year in revie
[at Financial Times] - On which deals this year will reputations will be made or lost? A few chief executives, most notably Warren Buffett, are prepared to wait years to be proved right. His purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe for Berkshire Hathaway will be seen as a masterstroke if a sluggish decade leaves the utility-like returns of a train company as the best available.
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:50:26 GMT
Oracle pledge pushes Sun deal forwar
[at Financial Times] - Oracle on Monday appeared close to resolving the issues that have delayed its $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems for months with Europe's antitrust watchdog.
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:05:18 GMT
Oracle accuses Brussels over Sun evidenc
[at Financial Times] - Oracle executives and their advisers on Thursday accused Europe's top competition regulator of misrepresenting customer evidence as they tried to overturn objections to the US group's proposed $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems .
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:45:23 GMT
Oracle summons support for EU hearin
[at Financial Times] - A number of big corporate and government technology users are set to appear at a hearing in Brussels starting on Thursday to back Oracle 's claim that its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems would not harm competition in the database software market.
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:50:13 GMT
Oracle wins more time for Sun merge
[at Financial Times] - The European Commission has agreed to a request by Oracle to extend the deadline for approval of its proposed $7.4bn merger with Sun Microsystems .
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:29 GMT
Oracle v Brussel
[at Financial Times] - The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away over a fly-speck of a business shows how odd the dispute over Oracle 's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems has become.
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:00:31 GMT