With the move- valued at $7.4 billion including Sun’s debt - Oracle also becomes a full-fledged hardware player. Oracle has been dabbling with the storage appliance with HP, but the acquisition of Sun puts the company in an entirely different realm. Oracle and Sun have been long-time partners. More at; http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16598

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