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EC-Oracle Standoff Degenerates to Name Calling

The European Commission Tuesday responded in kind to Oracle’s contention that its decision to potentially block Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun because of MySQL – whose revenues are barely a rounding error in Oracle’s...

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Google Dashboard Changes Our Thinking About Privacy

It's About Managing Our Public Profiles, Not Doggedly Keeping Everything Private Posted by Judy Shapiro on The launch of Google Dashboard last week was subdued by Google standards. Lurking behind the convenience of Google...

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Is Microsoft Lobbying to Burn Sun?

Summary : A person from Pappas & Associates, which has history with Microsoft, tries to derail the Oracle deal and thus leave Sun altogether abandoned T WO weeks ago we showed that Microsoft was lobbying behind the scenes in...

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Sun files $120m loss on the hush

Only $120m. Well done It was a week later than El Reg expected, but the behavior was the same. After the stock market closed on Friday and everyone was heading home for the weekend, server and operating system maker Sun...

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Sun Microsystems Posts Narrower Loss In Q1

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc., on Friday reported a narrower loss in its first quarter, helped primarily by lower expenses as a result of the company's cost saving measures.

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Sun to shine on if Oracle deal is sealed

John Taylor, CRN , Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 16:21:00 Reseller interest in Sun could be revived post-acquisition, predicts John Taylor When Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems back in April, Sun resellers could...

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Will Oracle kill the Java community?

ACA Pacific , Altech Computers , ASI Solutions , Australasian PC Distributors (APCD) , Avnet Technology Solutions , Banksia Software , Bluechip Infotech , Compucon Computers , Dicker Data , Digicor , Digital World Warehouse ,...

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IT’s been a good dozen years

In early 1997 international IT experts first came together for Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor and in 11 days they will be meeting for the 12th time. Then Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had just announced quite a...

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Sun aims for sky, shoots self in foot

Targets not acquired As European regulators drag their feet on approving Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the securities laws for public companies back home in the States compel Sun to still do its paperwork....

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Will EMC's rising tide float all storage boats?

Given that the phrase "our current economy" has such a negative connotation, EMC's third-quarter earnings report last week was downright upbeat. Indeed, Information Storage as a line item in EMC's third-quarter 2009 financial...

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