IBM in talks of buying Sun Microsystems
The Big Blue is in talks of acquiring Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion in cash. If the deal doesn’t go through, the company is done, meaning that’s the only choice Sun has at the moment. The biggest problem with Sun is that although they are a smart bunch that can develop new technologies, the company [...]
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Here are some companies that I thought are just “hanging over” in the tech industry:
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
As I said earlier, AMD had lost ground and can no longer remain competitive with Intel. AMD has ambitious goals, but it doesn’t have deep pockets like Intel for research and development. Last week, it had [...]
Sun Microsystems Inc.
JAVA – Sun Microsystems Inc.
The stock bounced of its recent bottom in hope that the earnings will be extraordinary. One of the good things about Sun is that the Solaris operating system is open source and the company mainly sells servers to business customers. However, Sun faces very strong competition in everything it sells.