Where there’s a controversial M&A, there’s Oracle.
The company that once billed itself as an “industry consolidator” made headlines again on Monday with its US$7.4B takeover of Sun Microsystems, snapping up an asset that was once reportedly coveted by IBM.
If the merger is successful, it will continue a long line of strategic surprises that caught the enterprise IT industry off-guard.
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