Oracle doesn’t look like it’s choking on Sun any. It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion – 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations of 54 cents [...]
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It appears the Solaris free ride is over. Oracle is clamping down on the freeloading riffraff. No more perpetual use of the operating system without coughing up some dough. Oracle says any downloads of Solaris 10, the stable version of the Sun operating system, are only good for a 90-day trial then you have to [...]
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Oracle finally closed on its delayed acquisition of Sun Tuesday, leaving local entities to shift for themselves according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes of Russian and Chinese regulators stalling the merger. Widenius will now presumably revert to his quixotic Plan B and appeal the European Commission’s clearance last week, a [...]
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It’s apparently all over but the shouting at Oracle and Sun. The European Commission is reportedly supposed to wave Sun’s acquisition through on January 19. In the process it’ll have to explain how it came to change its mind after needlessly costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs – well, [...]
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The United States Senate waded into the Oracle-Sun imbroglio Tuesday. Fifty-nine senators from both sides of the aisle led by one-time presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass) and perennial presidential pretender Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter to the European Commission asking it to wrap up its investigation of the Oracle-Sun merger as soon as possible [...]
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Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in an ad on the front [...]
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Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which once upon a time was supposed to be out in, oh, let’s see, 2006/2007, and was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something [...]
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