Oracle shocks experts, decides to start hiring at Sun

Submitted by Sarika Valecha on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 21:28

Oracle shocks experts, decides to start hiring at SunOracle has made an announcement which shocked market analysts and company watchers alike, the company has plans to start hiring at Sun.

Many have expected that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would cut jobs in the new acquisition while he took a decision to hire around 2,000 sales and engineering employees.

Ellison indicated that he intended to transform his outfit into a 21st century version of IBM in the 1960s. He also said that Oracle is planning to launch products that will complement its technology work seamlessly with Sun.

The company distributed messages during an event which read "We're hiring." Oracle indicated that the company would have significant investments in MySQL and its sales team would be kept independent of Oracle's other operations. OpenOffice. org will also be kept separately.

Oracle will also try to increase compatibility between the Java runtime environment on desktops and on mobile devices while JavaScript integration will also be accelerated.

The company expects to earn a profit of $1.5 billion from Sun over the next year.


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