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 ...

Less clear is the future for Sun's hardware product lines, especially its server products, and what the acquisition means for Sun's hardware channel partners. On Monday, Oracle and Sun stunned the ...

In its first year in charge of the former Sun Microsystems technologies, Oracle stepped on plenty of toes, as the company dueled with both the open source community and Google. But Oracle also has ...

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 ...