forbes.com - 4/3/2009
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When titans collide, blood runs. And as rumors circulated Friday that IBM and Sun Microsystems are inching toward a deal to sell the Silicon Valley computing pioneer to Big Blue for close to $7 billion, IT industry watchers began speculating on how the integration would proceed. The outlook: ...
nytimes.com - 4/5/2009
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nytimes.com —
withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems
on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at...
a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks. The deal’s collapse after weeks of negotiations raises questions about Sun’s next step, ...
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I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems
online.wsj.com - 4/5/2009
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Talks between International Business Machines Corp. and Sun
Microsystems Inc. were on the verge of unraveling Sunday,...
threatening a potential $7 billion acquisition that would place one of Silicon Valley's iconic companies under the Big Blue ...
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IBM Talks Teeter as Sun Board Splits
online.wsj.com - 4/2/2009
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International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Corp.
are in the final stages of negotiations to combine...
the two corporate computer giants. The companies are now discussing a deal in which IBM would pay $9.55 a share for Sun, about ...
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IBM Near Deal to Buy Sun for Lower Price
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IBM Mulling Sun “Resource Action”?
Digital Daily —
... ” it’s so fond of. “This deal is definitely going to lead to a lot of combined layoffs,” Forrester Research analyst James Staten told Forbes. “And it wouldn’t be a surprise if most of that bloodletting happened on the Sun side.” ...
The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategy
Open Source —
... , and it’s this gimlet eye that is making today’s deal possible. Draconian cuts to reach a profitable core can be criticized in good times. Now I doubt ...
'Industry in a box:' Sun acquisition will lead to Oracle Java
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... That decision will translate to a cash acquisition valued at $5.6 billion up front, and $7.4 billion including debt acquisition, translating into $9.50 per share. That's the same number that a huge variety of unconfirmed, though probably accurate, reports said was Sun's final offer to IBM, before IBM reportedly dropped its bid to as low as $7. Oracle Co-president Safra Catz this morning sized up the latest trophy as somewhere in the middle, probably not its most glorious catch: "Larger than Hyperion, and smaller than either BEA or PeopleSoft," Catz reported. ...
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