page_title: Sun acquisition by Oracle
section_title: Impact
hierarchical_section_title: Sun acquisition by Oracle / Impact
caption_attribution_description: English: An old, rusting Sun Microsystems van, as seen in 2016 on the post-acquisition Oracle Santa Clara campus.
context_page_description: The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. Significantly, Oracle, previously only a software vendor, now owned both hardware and software product lines from Sun.
  A major issue of the purchase was that Sun was a major competitor to Oracle, raising many concerns among antitrust regulators, open source advocates, customers, and employees.‹See TfM› The EU Commission delayed the acquisition for several months over concerns of Oracle's plans for MySQL, Sun's competitor to the Oracle Database. The commission finally approved the takeover, apparently pressured by the United States to do so, according to a WikiLeaks cable released in September 2011.
caption: A rusting Sun Microsystems van as seen at the Oracle-acquired Santa Clara, California campus in 2016
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