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Article: Oracle plays up promise of Sun take-over.

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October 15, 2009
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Byline: AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Sunday opened fire on US technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems.

While kicking off an Oracle Open World conference in downtown San Francisco, Ellison vowed to merge his company s business software prowess with Sun s hardware innovations in a synergy powerful enough to take on IBM.

"We re in it to win it," Ellison said as he joined Sun founder and chief executive Scott McNealy on stage to open a week-long gathering of fans of Oracle s software for businesses.

"We look forward to competing with ...

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