Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says his company will end up hiring about 2,000 new employees at Sun Microsystems and claims that will be about twice as many as the company dismisses to complete the takeover of the server and storage hardware company it paid more than $7.4 billion to acquire. Oracle will also continue to invest in the MySQL database to improve its capabilities and will retain its sales and development teams, according to Ellison.
– REDWOOD CITY,
Calif. Oracle CEO
and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM,
and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Oracle-Sun data center
products Jan. 27 before a packed auditorium here on the bayside campus of the
world’s second-largest software maker…