Sun was desperately looking for a buyer, and recently IBM was identified as the potential candidate. However, the price asked by Sun was considered too high by the computer giant, making it run away from 6.5 billion USD deal. Yesterday Oracle announced that it will swallow Sun for an even higher price, 7.4 billion USD cash. Both companies had a very different interest in Sun. IBM could have dropped all Sun's server divisions to only concentrate on its cloud computing technologies, Java and Solaris solutions. For Oracle, a purely software companies dedicated to database management and solutions, Sun brings additional tools while providing a hardware expansion. So, for Oracle this acquisition looks more as a strategic move and integration than for IBM for which it was kind of swallowing a competitor. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made it clear in a public statement: "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it
