The Scoop - Digesting Oracle's hunger for Sun

Posted: Fri 29 May 2009 05:44 PM

Oracle's proposed $US7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems surprised the ICT industry, and raised fresh questions about the impact of industry consolidation and the future of Sun's crown jewels: Java. Joining The Scoop host Mark Jones to analyse the acquisition is The Register's software editor Gavin Clarke, Unico CTO Peter Evans-Greenwood and Enterprise Java president Rob Janson.

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