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Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-picture-of-boat dept.

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."

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  1. Re:their Buyer is -- Jack Handy on Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the most misused words of the English language is "ironic." Whenver people try to sound overly sophisticated and intelligent, they tend to use that word and make their statement or argument more intelligent, and so many times I sit there thinking, "No... it's not ironic at all... maybe a coincidence, but it is not ironic." The song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette doesn't really have anything ironic in it at all. Almost all the scenarios that she portrays aren't ironic, but are umm.... bummers. So instead of her singing, "isn't it ironic," she should sing "isn't it a bummer." Now what would be ironic is if she deliberately titled the song "ironic" knowing full well that there's no irony in there at all