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Mr Ellison helps himself.

The article examines the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by computer software maker Oracle Corp. The $7.4 billion deal surprised many in high technology industries, which expected Sun to be purchased by another computer hardware maker. Larry Ellison, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oracle, has cond...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 390; no. 8628; pp. 65 - 67
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 4/25/2009
Subjects:
Mergers & acquisitions
High technology industries mergers
Oracle Corp.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Ellison, Larry, 1944-
Java programming language software
Finance
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost