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Oracle to acquire Sun Microsystems
20 April 2009, 9:16am
Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems for $5.6 billion following IBM's failed attempt to secure a deal with Oracle, where talks fell apart earlier in April. The deal is valued by Oracle at $7.4 billion (including Sun Microsystems’ cash and debts). Sun’s Solaris OS is the main platform on which Oracle bases its database business. The company already uses Java for its Fusion Middleware business.
The acquisition will make Oracle a stronger competitor against IBM. Sun Microsystems’ Java software is one of the most widely-deployed computer programming languages, with the Java Mobile Edition being a cornerstone language in many feature phones. However, the acquisition is unlikely to have near-term implications for mobile operating systems. A Java-based mobile OS would eliminate the need for an abstraction layer between the real-time operating system and Java-based applications, ultimately improving application performance and making it attractive to developers.
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