[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

Michael A. Turner mturner at whro.org
Wed May 7 10:06:29 CDT 2003


> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:56:43PM +1200, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> > Interesting.
> > 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030505/bs_nf/21430
> 
> This rumor has started because a large educational 
> institution made a large
> purchase of Sun stock (because its so cheap) a few days ago.
> 
> Bill
> 

	Now to the geekly discussion. Which would be worse as a purchaser of
sun? Would it be HP because they would gut the hardware and destroy it ala
the Alpha, or Microsoft because they would destroy the operating system?

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org



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