The rise of the Blue Sun, IBM and Sun

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 19, 2009 5:58 PM EDT
Practical Technology; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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The news broke this morning, March 18th, that IBM is talking to Sun about buying the company. Sources from both companies tell me that such a deal is in the works and it may be completed as early as this week. Sun’s pricetag may be as high as $6.5-billion with a large part of the deal being made with IBM stock. Sources indicated that what IBM wants is Sun’s software businesses, not its x86 and SPARC server lines.

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