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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by ja27 on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:01AM (#570686)
I'm thinking Oracle/Sun will eventually end up in HP's hands.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by falsestprophet on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:36AM (#570745)
Why? Oracle has a larger market capitalization than HP: ~90 billion vs. 84.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by ja27 on Monday April 20, 2009 @03:17PM (#571216)
Because Oracle and HP are already tight partners and analysts refer to them as essentially one entity against IBM. Plenty of people expect the Sun hardware line to die or get sold to HP, while Oracle keeps the software line.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6606-0-0-225-121....

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2903

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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @04:31PM (#571338)
Now that it has aqcuired Sun, it can make those Exadata appliances itself, without HP. That's basically what Oracle said they were going to do today.
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Re:Oracle to buy Sun by briansmith on Monday April 20, 2009 @10:38AM (#570748)
How will that work? Oracle's market cap is higher than HP's.
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