 ITBusiness.ca | Is the Oracle/Sun deal a harbinger of leviathans to come? ITBusiness.ca, Canada IBM (NYSE: IBM) was about to buy Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), then the deal fell through, and then Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) stepped out of the shadows and snapped up Sun instead. It's not the first such takeover drama in the computer industry and it likely won't ... IBM will keep buying connective software, Mills says |