Editing Oracle Corporation (section)

===Acquisition of Sun Microsystems===
{{Main|Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation}}
In January 2010, Oracle completed its acquisition of [[Sun Microsystems]]—valued at more than $7&nbsp;billion—a move that transformed Oracle from solely a software company to a manufacturer of both software and hardware. The acquisition was delayed for several months by the [[European Commission]] because of concerns about [[MySQL]], but was unconditionally approved in the end.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems |date=January 21, 2010 |publisher=European Commission |url=http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/40 |access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> In September 2011, U.S. State Department Embassy [[United States diplomatic cables leak|cables were leaked to WikiLeaks]]. One cable revealed that the U.S. pressured the [[E.U.]] to allow Oracle to acquire Sun.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mick |first=Jason |date=September 1, 2011 |title=U.S. Pressured EU to Approve the Oracle's Acquisition of Sun |url=http://www.dailytech.com/US%20Pressured%20EU%20to%20Approve%20the%20Oracles%20Acquisition%20of%20Sun/article22581.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118215252/http://www.dailytech.com/US%20Pressured%20EU%20to%20Approve%20the%20Oracles%20Acquisition%20of%20Sun/article22581.htm |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |access-date=September 2, 2011 |website=Daily Tech |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Sun acquisition was closely watched by [[free software]] users and some companies, due to the fear that Oracle might end Sun's traditional support of [[Free software|free]] projects.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vance |first=Ashlee |author-link=Ashlee Vance |date=September 21, 2010 |title=Oracle Growth Plans Worry Rivals and Customers |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/technology/22oracle.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Widenius |first=Monty |author-link=Monty Widenius |title=Save MySQL! |url=http://www.helpmysql.org |access-date=January 31, 2010 |quote=[Signer hereby asks] competition authorities around the world to block Oracle's acquisition of Sun unless one of the structural solutions selected by [signer] below is put in place as a legally binding requirement: (select at least one; all combinations are possible) MySQL must be divested to a suitable third party that can continue to develop it under the GPL. Oracle must commit to a linking exception for applications that use MySQL with the client libraries (for all programming languages), for plugins and libmysqld. MySQL itself remains licensed under the GPL. Oracle must release all past and future versions of MySQL (until December 2012) under the Apache Software License 2.0 or similar permissive license so that developers of applications and derived versions (forks) have flexibility concerning the code.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Ryan |date=April 20, 2009 |title=Oracle buys Sun: understanding the impact on open source |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/oracle-acquires-sun-ars-explores-the-impact-on-open-source.ars |access-date=March 6, 2011 |website=[[Ars Technica]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fiveash |first=Kelly |date=March 9, 2010 |title=Open source boss quits Oracle |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/simon_phipps_quits_sun_oracle/ |website=The Register}}</ref> Since the acquisition, Oracle has discontinued [[OpenSolaris]] and [[StarOffice]], and sued [[Google]] over the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] patents Oracle acquired from Sun.<ref name="arsjava2">{{cite web |last=Paul |first=Ryan |date=August 14, 2010 |title=Oracle's Java lawsuit undermines its open source credibility |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars |access-date=March 6, 2011 |website=[[Ars Technica]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weintraub |first=Seth |date=August 12, 2010 |title=Oracle files suit over Android's use of Java |publisher=CNN |url=http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/12/oracle-files-suit-over-androids-use-of-java/ |access-date=January 31, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119081751/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/12/oracle-files-suit-over-androids-use-of-java/ |archive-date=November 19, 2010}}</ref>