On January 27, 2010, Oracle announced it finalized it's acquisition of Sun.

This combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle's portfolio of database, middleware, and business applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box. Each layer of the stack will be architected to improve performance, leverage innovation and centralize management so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance, reliability and security goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.

Press Release: Oracle Completes Acquisition of Sun
Webcast: Oracle + Sun Strategy Update: Live Webcast With Larry Ellison Wednesday, January 27, 2010


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