Interesting article... the SEC filing also seems to indicate that Sun (at least in name) will live on as a "wholly owned subsidiary". As a former Sun employee, that would make me happy.... hate to see the old ship sink completely :-/
Whatever happens, I think we're all better off with Oracle buying Sun than IBM... an IBM acquisition would have been a complete blood bath for the Sun tech + employees I'd say. Something like Glassfish has at least some small chance of surviving at Oracle... no way IBM would have let it compete with their crappy cash cow Websphere. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote: > > In filings to the SEC, Sun revealed that three companies put forward > bids to buy it. Besides Oracle, the filings mention company A that > started the whole shebang at the end of last year (which is believed > to be IBM) and company B (unknown - may be HP, Cisco or Fujitsu). > Oracle originally just wanted the software side of Sun, company B > eventually walked away from a deal, and Oracle offered $9.50 a share, > compared to IBM's $9.10 - so Oracle got Sun. > > The Register has the details: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/12/suns_three_suitors/ > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/12/sun_oracle_sec/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
