Swooping in before dawn broke over Silicon Valley yesterday, software maker Oracle announced an agreed offer to buy Sun Microsystems. The transaction at $9.50 per share in cash – the price that rival IBM had been expected to pay before negotiations collapsed two weeks ago – launches Oracle into direct competition with IBM and Hewlett Packard.
週一，在矽谷尚未破曉之時，軟體製造商甲骨文(Oracle)便出其不意地宣佈將收購太陽電腦系統公司(Sun Microsystems)。每股9.5美元的現金收購價格與其競爭對手IBM原本有望支付的價格相同。Sun與IBM談判在兩週前破裂。而甲骨文將就此成爲IBM和惠普(HP)的直接競爭對手。
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