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Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems
antediluvian writes "The Seattle Times reports Sun Microsystems shares surged forward on speculation the computer maker may be bought by a rival company. Prospective buyers could include Dell, IBM or Hewlett-Packard. Computer sales of rival companies have been outpacing sales of Sun's machines. Over the past three years Sun's stock has declined 92 percent."
...should offer to buy them. At a ridiculously low price. Turnabout, being fair play, and all. :-)
Their buyer is SCO?
NOw that would be ironic wouldn't it?
Don't Tread on OpenSource
Hey, me and my buddies poured out our loose pocket change, and dug around for some coins under the cushions on the couch.... and I think we've scraped up enough to buy Sun ourselves! The first thing I'll do is bring back the "Mr. Coffee" JavaStation, and then fire Scott McNealy. Second step is to get Ed Zander back. Then, PROFIT!!!!!
Why doesn't the open source community take over Sun? Now that would be the day.
Too bad Apple just spent their allowance.
Can I bid for it on Ebay?
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
LNUX must be bought too. From $320 a few years ago to $0.90 Friday.
Don't you see, it's all happening again!
A computer tech company, becoming irrelevant, trying to get bought out!
Can't you see what will happen next?
THEY WILL SUE IBM SAYING PARTS OF SOLARIS ARE IN LINUX!
(/me removes tongue from cheek now).
www.eFax.com are spammers
*Heavy sigh*
I remember when Tivoli was an incredibly cool company to work for, not just an IBM product.
I miss the days of two hour lunches filled with alcohol. And the unlimited expenses were great too. (Why should I have to justify that Sun box when I can just order it? Hell, get two!)
Bring back the days of the tech bubble when IT work was fun.
Apple's merging with Sun. They'll call the new company Snapple.
Karma: Excellent (In Soviet Russia, karma pimps YOU)
Now where did I put my wooden teeth... ?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Anybody wonders, why this rumour was quoted from the Seattle Times .... how far is that from Redmond???
Browsers shouldn't have a back button!! It's all about going forward...
>I miss the days of two hour lunches filled with
>alcohol.
And yet people wonder what went wrong...
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
In other news, doughnut mogul Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) has placed a bid to purchase high-end computing giant Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) in order to secure a first-in-line place for the much anticipated ``blade'' form-factor servers with UltraSPARC IV CPUs to control production, shipping, and doughnut-glazing processes. Officials at Sun Microsystems could not be reached for comment, but a guy hauling garbage out of the rear door of building 7 of the San Diego campus was quoted as saying ``I really like them doughnuts. If they buy us, maybe we'll all get doughnuts for free at lunch. That'd rule.''.
Look out Dell and IBM, when you've got a million doughnut and coffee addicts for your clients, switching them to Unix and Java can't be far behind.
Pining for the days when The Glorious MEEPT!!! graced SlapDash with his wisdom.
More likely, Sun fucked Apple in some way -- some snub somewhere that was enough to piss off Jobs. Between Ellison (CEO of Oracle, on Apple's board, insane), Jobs (insane), and McNealy (again, insane), there's more than enough ego to fuck anything up.
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