http://www.osnews.com/story/21851/Sun_Shareholders_Approve_Acquisition_by_Oracle Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:44:04 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?373945 http://osnews.com/thread?373945 Even if they didn't buy sun couldn't you have just kept it anyway and started reporting on other oracle news? Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?374028 http://osnews.com/thread?374028 I think the Sun icon is way better. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?374058 http://osnews.com/thread?374058 Has there been any word if the sale would be blocked by the FTC? The #1 database maker buying up a big competitor could be troublesome. Course, since its open source now, maybe it doesn't make a difference. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TechGeek) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?374091 http://osnews.com/thread?374091 I'd expect there to be no opposition on that front. Without this takeover Sun are going bankrupt and nothing can be gained by that.Edited 2009-07-19 00:53 UTC Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?374098 http://osnews.com/thread?374098 Please ... you're not referring to MySQL as a competitor to Oracle, are you?

Oracle's competitors are the likes of Microsoft (SQL Server), IBM (DB2), SAP at a push. MySQL, for all its ubiquity on the web, is a toy compared to that lot. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Havin_it) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?374156 http://osnews.com/thread?374156 Let's hope Oracle move quickly to rejig the product roadmaps and sure up their support for OpenSolaris so we can remove this dark cloud hovering above all things Sun Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments