北京时间4月20晚间消息，甲骨文（Oracle）和Sun联合宣布，两家公司已经达成一项最终协议，甲骨文将以每股9.50美元的价格现金收购Sun公司的普通股。这笔交易总价值约为74亿美元。如果除去Sun的现金及债务不计，该交易总额为56亿美元。
在宣布这一并购消息的同时，甲骨文总裁查尔斯·菲利普斯（Charles Phillips）给客户、合作伙伴发了一份邮件，对这一并购进行了解释，并同时希望客户和合作伙伴继续给公司以专业的服务和销售支持。
查尔斯·菲利普斯在邮件中表示，甲骨文将拥有SUN两个关键软件资产——JAVA和Solaris。“希望公司能够以此为顾客提供更好的服务。”甲骨文承诺，将加大投入以求更大创新，提升系统性能、可靠性和安全性，并同时降低客户的成本。
查尔斯·菲利普斯进一步表示，Sun的Solaris控制系统也是甲骨文数据库的主要平台。在收购了sun之后，甲骨文利用Solaris的独特高端技术更好的优化自己信息平台、数据库。甲骨文同时也会加强Linux和其他操作平台的发展，从而进一步领先在此领域中的地位。
“很多的顾客曾经希望甲骨文能够减少技术的复杂性、工程的风险和成本。因此，我们将生产一个更高标准的产品平台。甲骨文计划要提供更广的产品，包括整体的服务器、存储器、硬件操作系统、数据库等。还计划增加顾客们的投资，与顾客增加合作使其有更多的选择权。”查尔斯·菲利普斯称。
以下为信件全文，特此刊出以飨网友。
On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems. The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.
This acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability, and security go up.
Oracle's ownership of two key Sun software assets, Java and Solaris, is expected to provide our customers with significant benefit. Java is one of the computer industry's best known brands and most widely deployed technologies. Oracle Fusion Middleware is built on top of Sun's Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.
The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris. Oracle is as committed as ever to Linux and other open platforms, and will continue to support and enhance our strong industry partnerships.
Our customers have been asking us to step up to a broader role to reduce complexity, risk, and cost by delivering a highly-optimized standards-based product stack. Oracle plans to deliver these benefits by offering a broad range of products, including servers and storage, with all the integrated pieces: hardware operating system, database, middleware and applications. We plan to preserve and enhance investments made by our customers, while we continue to work with our partners to provide customers with choice.
We are dedicated to maintaining and increasing the quality of innovation, support, and service that you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun. To learn more about the Sun acquisition, please visit oracle.com/sun.
Sincerely,
Charles Phillips
President, Oracle