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Analytics Storage Breaking News 11 * 25 * 09 Columns Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say.

Fifty-nine U.S. senators have asked European antitrust regulators to speed up their investigation into Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, due to Sun's "deteriorating financial condition." The senators, led by John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, called on the European Commission to "expedite" its ...

On November 7th, 2009 i worte a column for InformationWeek Analytics Newsletter and i got some responses via email but i thought the discussion was interesting enough that i decided to post the newsletter and some of the comments that sparked the discussion.

You can say a lot of things about Larry Ellison , but never call him a quitter. The planned merger of his Oracle with Sun Microsystems has been in regulatory limbo for months, leading some observers to speculate that Oracle might give up on the buyout altogether.

While industry analysts praise Red Hat's recent investment in EnterpriseDB as a solid strategic move, users expressed mixed views on the impact of Red Hat's fiscal stake in the rapidly growing, open source database company.

If it's true that "money talks," then the bank accounts of Canada's wealthiest citizens are doing a lot of blabbing these days.

For most modern businesses, Microsoft Office is the standard for productivity applications.

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With activity picking up speed in the European Commission's investigation of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, this is a good time to look back at the series of events in the Oracle-Sun deal.

I couldn't be sure whether that was fog rolling past Oracle's shimmering Redwood City towers last week or steam coming out of the ears of Larry Ellison when he learned the European Union had officially objected to his purchase of Sun Microsystems.

Last week we noted that both HP CEO Mark Hurd and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano have recently said that "cloud computing" is a lousy name.

Job cuts at Sun Microsystems Inc. will once again hit hard in Broomfield, where the computer technology company will eliminate 128 jobs in January as part of national layoffs.

Morgan Stanley to EU: Whatever Larry Wants, Larry Gets, and Sun Is No Exception For Oracle, whose acquisition of Peoplesoft and Siebel Systems cleared in Europe without conditions, news that the European Commission issued formal objections to its purchase of Sun was likely particularly galling.

It's partly because of the European Union's deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance, and partly because Ellison's already invested so much time and money, and partly because he wants Sun before it must shed several thousand more jobs due to the EU's dithering.

The demonstration will take place on 2 November, the last day of the three day conference at the ICC in Birmingham.

European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing concerns that the takeover could hurt competition in the database market.

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Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide.

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