[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[JF Mezei]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/business/digital-employees-tell-of-threats-by-gates-over-product.html

Interesting article. At the time this decision was made (1997), Palmer
was already working to shape Digital so that Compaq could purchase it.
(Palmer started to shape Digital for Compaq a full 3 years prior to the
announcement of the takeover).

Seems to me that Compaq would have been involved in influencing the
pro-Microsoft decision since Compaq wouldn't have wanted to negatively
impact its own relationship with Microsoft once it purchased Digital.