[csw-maintainers] is IBM going to buy Sun?

[ken mays]

This came out two years ago and it was rumored back then.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.20070816.1.xml

'For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee...' ?





--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Ihsan Dogan <ihsan at opencsw.org> wrote:

> From: Ihsan Dogan <ihsan at opencsw.org>
> Subject: Re: [csw-maintainers] is IBM going to buy Sun?
> To: "internal list for the CSW maintainers" <maintainers at lists.opencsw.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 5:03 AM
> Am 18.3.2009 9:53 Uhr, Ihsan Dogan
> schrieb:
> 
> > I've just seen this in the UBS Quotes news ticker.. Not
> the first time
> > that people talking about a take over...
> 
> This comment is very interesting:
> 
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> In recent months, Sun has approached a number of large tech
> companies in
> the hopes of being acquired, say people familiar with the
> matter. The
> world’s largest tech company, Hewlett-Packard, declined
> the offer, says
> a person briefed on the matter. A spokesman for Dell Inc.,
> the world’s
> third-largest server maker, declined to comment.
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> Ihsan
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