Sun's stock price "tumbled" but it's still up 30% from a month ago. The price nearly doubled, in anticipation of what IBM would pay; so that collapsed when the deal did, but still left them ahead of where they had been. Peter
On 4/6/09, Joe Landman <land...@scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > > Huw Lynes wrote: > >> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 19:41 -0400, Joe Landman wrote: >> >>> Not sure if you've seen this yet, but Sun appears to have rejected the >>> IBM bid as being insufficient. The claim is that they wanted out of the >>> exclusivity bit, likely to try to get a better deal from someone else. So it >>> seems IBM yanked the deal. >>> >>> >> If true, I choose to interpret this as a very good thing. Assuming Sun >> doesn't declare chapter 11 next week. >> > > Don't think they will do Chapter 11 next week. Though if they don't > announce a new suitor today, I am guessing they will announce a new CEO this > week. > > That and sidle back up to IBM, to beg them for another chance. > > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics LLC, > email: land...@scalableinformatics.com > web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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