LATE NEWS: Oracle and Sun unveil alliance

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Oracle and Sun Microsystems have unveiled an alliance to develop software that will compete head-to-head with Microsoft's Windows in a bold attempt to take on the vendor in the operating system market.

Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive of Oracle, said the deal would put 'a miniature mainframe on the desktop', by integrating Sun's Solaris technology with Oracle's database technology, wit...

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