Global vendor strategies - 19/01/08

Oracle has opened once again its purse: $8.5bn to buy BEA Systems. Globally, Oracle has spent over $27bn for external growth.

Sun will acquire open source giant MySQL for $1bn.

Apple has sold 4m iPhones in 2007. It announced a free software upgrade for its iPhone.

Motorola has completed the purchase of Vertex Standard, a global provider of two-way radio solutions.

The U.S. National Research Council has advised researchers to study the impact of cell phones or other wireless devices radiations on children or pregnant women.