Sun Microsystems
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More SORE
Larry Ellison is banging the drum about how Soracle is serious about keeping Sun’s hardware business. What should we conclude from this? That Oracle desperately wants to get rid of Sun’s hardware business…
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Soracle
Proposed stock symbol: SORE Customer line: “I’m a SORE customer…” Rejected names: Sunacle? Too close to Unocal. Orasun? Sounds like a cloying dental product. Orsun? You could easily swap Ellison for Hearst in the remake of Citizen Kane… Ok, so this isn’t a merger of equals. It is the end of Sun. Only Oracle survives. …
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From an Undisclosed Location
Somewhere, the team of guards that has been keeping Scott McNealy gagged and under lock and key in recent years has been doubled and they’ve taken to sedating him to ensure he doesn’t pop off about the prospect of IBM buying Sun and perhaps prevent Sun from being put out of their (and our) misery…