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 ...

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 ...

The $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was approved by Sun stockholders on Thursday morning, Sun said. Oracle will acquire Sun stock for $9.50 per share. Approximately 62 percent ...

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 $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 ...

Sun Microsystems joins a long list, including such names as BEA Systems, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Systems, of Oracle's latest buys Oracle hasn’t been shy in recent years about snapping up other ...

Sun reported a net loss of $120 million for its 2009 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 27, an improvement on the $1.7 billion that it lost in fiscal 2008. It is unlikely to report financial results for ...