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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by cookiecaper on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:08PM (#10465782)
It's said that Sun turned down IBM's buyout bid and went with Oracle because they thought that there'd ultimately be fewer layoffs with Oracle. Of course, no one really knows how things would've played out if IBM had taken over Sun.
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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by ghaff on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:04PM (#10467767)
I was an analyst at the time and an IBM acquisition of Sun never made sense to me. The Oracle acquisition did--even if I didn't personally like it for a variety of reasons.
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