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Article | 7/06/2010 Oracle to lay off more Sun workers
Oracle is making further job cuts related to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, primarily in Europe and Asia, the company said in a regulatory filin...
Article | 28/01/2010 Oracle to scale back Sun server line, make other changes
Oracle will pare back Sun Microsystems' server lines and move to a build-to-order model to cut costs and get the hardware company back to profitabilit...
Article | 19/01/2010 Oracle-Sun merger foes head East
With the European Commission seen as virtually certain to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in just a week, those campaigning to preven...
Article | 15/12/2009 Oracle's pledges on MySQL are 'purely cosmetic', say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL databas...
Article | 26/11/2009 US senators ask EU to hurry investigation of Oracle-Sun
Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked European antitrust regulators to speed up their investigation into Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystem...
Article | 22/11/2009 EU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiry
Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European ...
Article | 10/11/2009 EU issues objections to Oracle's Sun acquisition
The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulator...
Article | 29/10/2009 Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL
A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL d...
Article | 21/10/2009 Sun to cut 3,000 jobs as Oracle awaits approval for deal
Sun Microsystems will lay off up to 3,000 workers over the next 12 months as Oracle awaits approval from European regulators for its acquisition of th...
Article | 20/10/2009 MySQL cofounder says Oracle should sell database
Oracle should resolve antitrust concerns over its acquisition of Sun Microsystems by selling open-source database MySQL to a suitable third party, its...
Article | 11/09/2009 Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans in ad
Oracle Corp. ended it silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to...
Article | 7/09/2009 Sun server sales crashing as Oracle deal stumbles
Continued delays in the completion of Oracle Corp.'s pending US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. have put the latter into a limbo that...
Article | 4/09/2009 EC opens deeper probe of Oracle-Sun merger
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing concerns abo...
Article | 3/09/2009 Sun leads way as server sales take a record plunge in Q2
Oracle's pending acquisition has put Sun Microsystems Inc. into a limbo that appears to be devouring its server business.
Article | 21/08/2009 US DOJ approves Oracle-Sun deal
Oracle on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice has approved its US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, although the deal is subject t...

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