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Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

gandhi_2 writes "Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by IBM. The Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the matter," reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company's closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment."

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  1. this sux by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IBM will shut down the European and American operations and send all the work to China.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  2. Re:A boon to open source by Courageous · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll second the other poster. Sun used the source license they did in order to specifically make themselves incompatible with the GPL. They knew this integration hurdle would occur.

    More to the point, there is nothing whatsoever keeping them from dual licensing, once under the GPL and once again under the CDDL. And yet they won't.

    I can't really argue with their decision. If they do it, Red Hat will take their stuff right away.

    C//