Oracle's Acquisition of Sun Microsystems
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Case Code: BSTR336 Case Length: 18 Pages Period: 2009 Pub Date: 2009 Teaching Note: Not Available |
Price: Rs.300 Organization: Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems Industry: Information Technology and Related Services Countries: US Themes: Mergers and Acquisitions |
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Background Note
Oracle Corporation
In 1977, Ellison, a computer programmer, found that there was huge potential for relational database management systems (RDBMS) and that no company had commercialized that product till then. Ellison along with Robert Miner (Miner) set up System Development Laboratories (SDL) to develop RDBMS software which could be accessed using Structured Query language (SQL)...
Sun Microsystems
Andreas Bechtolsheim (Bechtolsheim), as a part of his project at Stanford University , designed a workstation from used components he had picked up from Stanford labs...
Bechtolsheim designed a system for network integration and equipped it with high resolution. The system handled engineering and graphics tasks faster than the systems that were in the market...
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