With Oracle likely just two months or so away from closing its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, speculation is now picking up about what parts of Sun’s technology portfolio will be dropped. But Oracle is currently working hard to counter suggestions that it won’t take on Sun’s core hardware business, and in particular, that it will give up on Sparc processor development.
Ellison Insists Sun’s Sparc Still Has a Future
May 13, 2009