Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems 489
antediluvian writes "The Seattle Times reports Sun Microsystems shares surged forward on speculation the computer maker may be bought by a rival company. Prospective buyers could include Dell, IBM or Hewlett-Packard. Computer sales of rival companies have been outpacing sales of Sun's machines. Over the past three years Sun's stock has declined 92 percent."
Apple... (Score:5, Funny)
their Buyer is (Score:4, Funny)
NOw that would be ironic wouldn't it?
Power To The People! (Score:5, Funny)
How about us? (Score:5, Funny)
Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Hrmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about us? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:stock (Score:2, Funny)
Nooooooo! (Score:5, Funny)
A computer tech company, becoming irrelevant, trying to get bought out!
Can't you see what will happen next?
THEY WILL SUE IBM SAYING PARTS OF SOLARIS ARE IN LINUX!
(/me removes tongue from cheek now).
Re:Power To The People! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what about N1? (Score:1, Funny)
I remember when Tivoli was an incredibly cool company to work for, not just an IBM product.
I miss the days of two hour lunches filled with alcohol. And the unlimited expenses were great too. (Why should I have to justify that Sun box when I can just order it? Hell, get two!)
Bring back the days of the tech bubble when IT work was fun.
This Just In! (Score:2, Funny)
In my day... (Score:3, Funny)
Now where did I put my wooden teeth... ?
Straight from Seattle .... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what about N1? (Score:3, Funny)
>alcohol.
And yet people wonder what went wrong...
No! No! They're not the buyers! (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, doughnut mogul Krispy Kreme [krispykreme.com] (NYSE: KKD) has placed a bid to purchase high-end computing giant Sun Microsystems [sun.com] (NASDAQ: SUNW) in order to secure a first-in-line place for the much anticipated ``blade'' form-factor servers with UltraSPARC IV CPUs to control production, shipping, and doughnut-glazing processes. Officials at Sun Microsystems could not be reached for comment, but a guy hauling garbage out of the rear door of building 7 of the San Diego campus was quoted as saying ``I really like them doughnuts. If they buy us, maybe we'll all get doughnuts for free at lunch. That'd rule.''.
Look out Dell and IBM, when you've got a million doughnut and coffee addicts for your clients, switching them to Unix and Java can't be far behind.
Re:Java yes! Sun No! (Score:3, Funny)