In a full-page newspaper advertisement, Oracle officials say they will spend more money than Sun on developing and selling SPARC/Solaris hardware once they close the $7.4 billion deal for Sun. In the same ad, they also challenge IBM, which along with HP has been aggressively courting Sun customers who may have concerns about Oracles bid.
– Since first announcing their plans to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4
billion, Oracle officials have been dogged by questions surrounding
their plans for Suns hardware business.
Though Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had said that he planned to keep
that part of Suns business, concerns remained. Rivals s…