Oracle’s acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems, which finally closed in January after lingering for eight months, placed Oracle in charge of Java — or did it? On the surface, it would seem ...

Oracle (ORCL) said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market.

Oracle wants to be like IBM -- the IBM of the 1960s. A series of Oracle executives took turns Wednesday outlining the company's plans for integrating Sun Microsystems' hardware and software with ...

You can say this about Oracle, things are never dull with CEO Larry Ellison & Co. This year included Oracle's $7.3 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems after nearly a year of regulatory maneuvering ...

In the two weeks that the Oracle v. Google trial has been under way, it's become clear that Sun's top executives weren't unified in their thinking about whether Java could be used without a license ...