"It's a very different business that Sun and Oracle are in," said
Peter Falvey, co-founder of tech bank Revolution Partners LLC, a
division of Morgan Keegan & Co., in a video interview with The
Deal. "Oracle is used to selling software, which has very different
margins and a very different sales process than Sun. They're not
necessarily going to be able to cross-sell as easily as people
think they're going to." With the closing of its long-delayed $7.4
billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday, Oracle
Corp. begins a dramatic and risky transformation from a company
that makes software to one that also makes hardware. The Deal
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