IBM Sun acquisition to be announced today?

Apr 03, 2009, 14:33 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

"Reportedly, IBM will pay $9.50 a share for Sun, giving the deal a total value of approximately $7 billion. The deal (in my view) will consolidate the Unix market with 2/3rds of it under the control of IBM. I've also written that I figured it would be a good deal for Linux too."

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