[Info-vax] OT: Oracle to Buy Sun

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 

Damn, ment *Oracle* of course... Sorry.