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IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT
suraj.sun points to a story in the New York Times indicating that the much-rumored merger (or purchase) that would have united Sun with IBM may have dissolved before it began. Excerpting: "I.B.M., after months of negotiations, withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun's board balked at a slightly reduced offer, according to a person close to the talks. The deal's collapse raises questions about Sun's next step, since the I.B.M. offer was far above the value of the Silicon Valley company's shares when news of the I.B.M. offer first surfaced last month. .. Since last year, Sun executives had been meeting with potential buyers. I.B.M. stepped up, seeing an opportunity to add to its large software business, acquire valuable researchers and consolidate the market for larger, so-called server computers that corporations use in their data centers. ... Now, Sun is free to pursue other suitors, including I.B.M. rivals like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. Cisco recently entered the market for server computers."
I saw this a few years ago and it made me true to my moniker: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19080808-Ars-technica-on-Sun-strategy-over-the-years. Looks like we have an edit to make to this spot-on, funny-but-sad pie chart.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
... after all, why not? They know how to make a profit.
Classic April Fools, IBM!
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Solaris is more stable than Linux.
stable. n. resistant to change of position or condition.
Indeed.
How we know is more important than what we know.
In yet another stunning up-setl UNIX Stanford Network Systems faced down their archrival opponent International Business Machines in the Final Four UNIX match.
With IBM "flat-lining" Solaris, MySQL, SPARC and other production lines of SUN, SUN countered with a back-board slam fest from of "all walks of life" -- JAVA.
Point forward of JAVA, Groshlong, commanded the JAVA troups and ... they dillevered threes in an unending toruent ... even from three-quartes of the court out. What a show! What defiance!
IBM never saw this coming! Completely blind they were! What a plan! How effeicent. So economical!
Reports tell that CEO Schwarts will be nominated Coach of the Year. A fine tribute!
Reporting from the Final Four.
u lost me at pussy
You speak London? I speak London very best.
Should IBM wind up buying SUN after all, I think the name of the company should be Blue Sun.
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I hate that damn ribbon and cannot even turn the fucker off. It takes 10 times longer to do things and takes up 1/3rd of my screen. The ribbon is one of the reasons I work exlusively with OpenOffice. ..and don't even get me started on that bastard of a standard OpenXML, which was such a fucked up standard that Microsoft had to bribe people to support it and corrupt the ISO process. Shameful.
Sorry to the little kiddies about my foul language, I have a Microsoft disorder and the bad words spew out of my mouth uncontrollably whenever the word Microsoft is mentioned.
Sun: What a bunch of Yahoo!s.