Sun Chairman Scott McNealy (left) with Oracle chief Larry Ellison. With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun's debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player. Oracle has been ...

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When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems four years ago, it quickly and ruthlessly started tearing out the unprofitable stuff. Sun was a company run by engineers, a Xerox-PARC-like outfit where a cool idea ...

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James Gosling, the original designer of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems before that company was acquired by Oracle, wrote in his blog that he has resigned from Oracle. Gosling, in a ...

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