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Oracle Acquisition of Sun should put Competitors on Notice
Longhaus, April 2009, Pages: 4
Reports emerged on 18 March from the Wall Street Journal that IBM and Sun Microsystems (Sun) had entered into talks about a potential acquisition. By 7 April it was reported that talks between IBM and Sun had broken down. On 20 April, Oracle announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sun at USD$9.50 per share in cash; a transaction valued at approximately USD$7.4 billion, or USD$5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
The acquisition of Sun by Oracle surprised many, including Microsoft’s own Steve Ballmeri. Oracle and Sun have had strong ties for some time, demonstrated by Oracle’s targeting of Solaris for many years as its first distribution platform for core database products. Longhaus made the following observations in relation to the changing ICT industry landscape in terms of enterprise application software development and deployment.
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