On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Lurie <y...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > "IBM Near Deal to Buy Sun for Lower Price" > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123869375752683145.html > > Sun Microsystems shares again on the rise..
That news was already 15 hours old. But here is something new, now with the exact day (next Monday) when it is believed to make "big bang": http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090403/ibm-mulling-sun-resource-action/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker """And after the deal, then what? Massive layoffs, most likely. Analysts say redundancies between the two companies’ businesses could cause IBM to sack as much as a third of Sun’s employees in one of those “resource actions” it’s so fond of. “This deal is definitely going to lead to a lot of combined layoffs,” Forrester Research analyst James Staten told Forbes. “And it wouldn’t be a surprise if most of that bloodletting happened on the Sun side.” """ and "IBM Said to Plan April 6 Announcement on Sun Purchase (Update1)" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akNk_HK.8cUI As mentioned many times, always the most recent summary of press releases, rumors, financial blogs, analyst reports etc.: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=java Kick ponytail. He sells you out (Rather gives you away for free: Sun for just 6Billion USD == just 4.5Billion EUR, who would ever have thought this.) :-( He is a joke of a "leader". He did lead Sun: Into hell. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
