Oracle plays up promise of Sun takeover

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Sunday opened fire on US
technology veteran IBM and expressed optimism about the pending 7.4-
billion-dollar-deal to buy Sun Microsystems. While kicking off an
Oracle Open World conference in downtown San Francisco, Ellison
vowed to merge his company's business software prowess with Sun's
hardware innovations in a synergy powerful enough to take on IBM.
"We're in it to win it," Ellison said as he joined Sun founder and
chief executive Scott McNealy on stage to open a weeklong gathering
of fans of Oracle's software for businesses.