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Sun Microsystems (JAVA) filed its last 10-K as a public company. Oracle (ORCL) will probably close its deal to buy the server company as early as next week. The figures from the document show what a mess Sun has become and raises the question of what kind of deal Oracle is getting.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is preparing to sell digital ad agency Razorfish. What it is doing with the company in the first place is anyone's guess. It got the business when it bought ad targeting company aQuantive two years ago. It is a wonder that it did not offer the operation for sale...

Sun Microsystems (JAVA), the company that invented the Java programming language, reported what could be one of its last earnings reports as an independent company Tuesday. Earlier this month, after deal talks collapsed with IBM, Sun agreed to be acquired by information technology company Oracle...

After IBM (IBM) decided to not follow through with its purchase of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Oracle (ORCL) slipped in and made the deal a reality. Oracle has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Sun common stock for $9.50 per share cash. The premium for the deal comes in at $2.81 per...

Today's announcement that Oracle (ORCL) would acquire Sun Microsystems (JAVA) for $7.4 billion in cash left me scratching my head. The rationale? Something to do with what Oracle's president calls "non-GAAP earnings." As if that's supposed to explain Oracle's first acquisition of a hardware...

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) did not just manage to avoid a loss in the first quarter, it crushed analysts' expectations, recording earnings of $4.2 billion, or 44 cents per share -- 40 cents higher than the 4 cents a share analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected. But the bank also took a...

As details of the broken down talks between IBM (IBM) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) come trickling out, one can't help but wonder if Sun is making the same mistake Yahoo made by rejecting Microsoft's takeover offer last year. Just 14 months ago, Yahoo turned down a rich $44 billion from Microsoft...

General Motors Corp. (GM) Chief Executive Fritz Henderson, who recently replaced the ousted Rick Wagoner, said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that he did not think that it was inevitable that North America's largest automaker would go bankrupt. In a separate appearance on CNN's "State of the Union,"...

When you're selling your car and someone offers you double what it's worth, you take it. You don't quibble over terms. You agree on terms as fast as possible. IBM to Sun: I'll give you double what it's worth. Sun to IBM: Where do I sign? That's how the conversation should have gone in recent days...

Dell (DELL) is trying to get its investors and customers to think that an IBM (IBM) buyout of Sun (JAVA) is good news for the PC company. That probably is not true. Commenting on the possible Sun deal to Reuters, Michael Dell said, "Such talk created uncertainty over the future of Sun's...