Ed Bott: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $7.4 billion including debt. With the move Oracle becomes a hardware player. Oracle has been dabbling with the a storage appliance with HP, but the aquisition of Sun puts Larry Ellison & Co. into an entirely different realm. Oracle also gets control of Java.
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