[Info-vax] OT: Oracle to Buy Sun

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <qMjHl.8038$U5.88819 at newsb.telia.net>,
	Jan-Erik Söderholm   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <gsk4eu$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.

That boat has sailed.  IBM wasn't interested and Sun has been bought.
I hardly expect it will be back on the market again anytime soon.

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>