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April 20, 2009: Oracle Purchases Sun Microsystems


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<img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-21392 " data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/04/oracle-day-in-tech-history-300x300.png" alt="Oracle" width="180" height="180" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/oracle-day-in-tech-history-300x300.png 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/oracle-day-in-tech-history-150x150.png 150w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/oracle-day-in-tech-history-65x65.png 65w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/oracle-day-in-tech-history.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px" />April 20, 2009: Oracle purchases Sun Microsystems

2009 – Oracle announces they have purchased Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion dollar deal. This includes stock at $9.50 / share. That would also be the acquisition of SPARC processors, Solaris OS, Java and MySQL, among other items. The deal would be finalized on January 27th 2010.

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