Oracle on Wednesday is expected to offer assurances that it will continue to invest in all of Sun Microsystems' main server platforms, in an effort to convince Sun customers that they should stick with those products as the database giant works to reinvent itself as a systems and software company.

Oracle executives are due to give an update on their strategy for the combined company, including how it will reconcile overlapping products, during a five-hour event Wednesday at its Redwood Shores, California, headquarters.

The event, which will be webcast, follows the European Union's approval last week of Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The deal is expected to clear the remaining regulatory hurdles soon, and Sun filed paperwork Tuesday to delist its shares from the Nasdaq stock market.

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