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• Oracle temporarily trims support fees for older software

  Feeling pressure from recession-hit customers and rivals, Oracle Corp. Monday said it will give small, short-term discounts to enterprises that stick with aging versions of its software.

• Oracle sued by i2 for patent infringement

  Oracle has been sued for alleged patent infringement by supply chain management vendor i2 Technologies, i2 said on Wednesday.

• Linux out, Windows in at Electoral Commission

  The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) will leave Linux for Windows Server when it develops its new vote counting and reporting application, which is slated to cost $1.4 million over the next two years.

• Sun's revenue drops 20 percent ahead of Oracle buy

  Sun Microsystems reported a sharp drop in revenue for its third fiscal quarter, as the company battled uncertainty about its future along with the global recession.

• Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice's independence

  Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation.

• Sun's revenue drops 20 per cent ahead of Oracle buy

  Sun Microsystems reported a sharp drop in revenue for its third fiscal quarter, as the company battled uncertainty about its future along with the global recession.

• Oracle leaves 'em wanting more on its plans for Sun

  Oracle Corp.'s announcement last week that it plans to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. raised questions about, well, almost every aspect of the blockbuster deal that would unite two Silicon Valley icons.

• The downfall of Sun Microsystems

  Oracle's surprising US$7.4 billion deal to purchase Sun this week gives Larry Ellison and crew a big stake in the hardware market as well as control over Java and other well-known open source technologies. But it also spells the end of an independent Sun Microsystems, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent companies.

• Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM

  Oracle may have decided to buy Sun Microsystems because it was worth far more to the database market leader than it was to IBM. It's not a question of the price - at $US7.4 billion, Oracle didn't agree to pay much more than what IBM reportedly was considering. But Oracle may have more use for Sun's technology than IBM ever did.

• Sun ties identity app to Google, Amazon cloud platforms

  Sun has tied its identity federation software to Google Apps and added its directory and Web application server to the cloud platform it is building for developers to build and test applications.

• IBM renews Oracle-migration efforts with database upgrade

  IBM on Wednesday released Version 9.7 of its flagship DB2 database with several notable new features, including the ability to run applications written for other databases, especially Oracle Corp.'s.

• Schwartz: Sun to 'operate independently' until deal is done

  Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz called it "one of the toughest e-mails I've ever had to write" when he told Sun's employees that Oracle was buying the company.

• Anaylsts: Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership

  One year after spending US$1 billion to purchase MySQL, the open source database software company, Sun Microsystems is now being swallowed up by Oracle.

• Sun unveils MySQL update as Oracle deal looms

  Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled an early look at MySQL 5.4, the next version of its open-source database, one day after Oracle said it is buying Sun for $US7.4 billion.

• After losing Sun to Oracle, IBM earnings up

  The same day it appears to have lost out on the opportunity to buy Sun Microsystems, IBM reported that revenue for the first quarter of 2009 dropped 11 percent compared to the same quarter last year and just barely missed analyst expectations.