IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT 291
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."
Time to modify this hilarious graphic? (Score:5, Funny)
Now RedHat can buy them ... (Score:5, Funny)
Hahah... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cisco Sun (Score:5, Funny)
Solaris is more stable than Linux.
stable. n. resistant to change of position or condition.
Indeed.
Re:Hahah... (Score:2, Funny)
RE: SUN Wins in overtime against anticrist IBM! (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:of course (Score:2, Funny)
Name Merge (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Now RedHat can buy them ... (Score:3, Funny)
Would they call it SunHat or RedSun?
BrownPants, I expect.
WTF The Ribbon??? (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:Just how much is enough? (Score:3, Funny)