Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun Microsystems and SAP’s Acquisition of Sybase
Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in May, 2009, marking the company’s entry into the hardware market (“Oracle Agrees to Buy Sun,” 2009). This deal entailed that Oracle would pay “$9.50 per share in cash for Sun” (“Oracle Agrees to Buy Sun,” 2009, p. 6), which totaled to a net amount of $5.6 billion of Sun’s debt and cash.
This deal came after Sun rejected an offer from IBM. It also came as a surprise in the computer software world as this would be the first time that Oracle would conduct business in ...
