Included under the Oracle banner are BEA Systems, Hyperion, Siebel Systems, and Sun Microsystems, among several others. Oracle's largest acquisition was of Cerner for $28.3 billion in 2022.

And several pointed to IBM circa 1965, which provided customers with tightly integrated hardware-software systems, as the model Oracle plans to follow as it combines Oracle and Sun technologies ...

executive vice president of Advanced Systems Group, a Denver-based Sun reseller. At least one longtime Sun partner is buying into the Oracle vision. "Judson made it clear they are looking for ...