[Info-vax] OT: Oracle to Buy Sun

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <gsk4eu$iku$1 at south.jnrs.ja.net>,
> 	"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> writes:
>> "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote in message 
>> news:753nj0F15l88oU1 at mid.individual.net...
>>
>>> In any event, the market seems to like the idea as Sun has gone up almost
>>> 33% so far today.
>> It would be surprising if  it wasn't trading near the offer price, given it looks
>> pretty much a done deal. 
>  
> Which would be true if the rest of the market (and all the IT stocks I
> watch out of curiosity) weren't all tanking again.  One would expect
> Sun to follow the market in mopst cases but this announcement actually
> made them stand out from among their peers.

A lot of investers are buying SUN in the hope of getting
a fair margin when IBM buys them later (at an already fixed price).
This have very little with how thew IT market at large "goes" to do.