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Wisdom behind the Oracle-Sun merger

16 May 2011 • 7 min read

Oracle and its partners open up about the Sun acquisition's impact on the channel. Caroline Donnelly reports

Of all the acquisitions to have taken place in the storage channel over the past 18 months, Oracle's $7.44bn (£4.5bn) buyout of Sun is one of the most contentious. The deal was completed in January...

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