مذاکرات برای خرید سهام SUN ادامه دارد ولی هنوز توافقی صورت نپذیرفته. بعد از اعلام این خبر در 18 مارس سهام SUN هفتاد و نه درصد رشد کرده است. SUN نیمی از درآمد خود را در بازار سرورها بدست میآورد و ده درصد این بازار را در اختیار دارد.
April 2 (Bloomberg) --
International Business Machines Corp. and
Sun Microsystems Inc. are negotiating a takeover that values Sun at $9 to $10 a share, people familiar with the matter said.
The discussions are continuing and no agreement has been reached yet, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the talks are private. The companies are going through contracts for the merger, the person said.
Sun
shares, which jumped 79 percent on March 18, the day the deal was first reported, have since fallen 7.6 percent. The merger would give Armonk, New York-based IBM almost half the server-computer market. Sales of servers declined 14 percent industrywide in the fourth quarter as corporations cut costs in the recession.
Sun, based in Santa Clara, California,
rose 21 cents to $8.21 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. IBM advanced $3.21 to $100.82 in New York Stock Exchange composite
trading.
Sun, whose
customers include AT&T Inc. and China Mobile Ltd., makes about half its total revenues from servers, which run corporate networks and Web sites.
Shawn Dainas, a spokesman for Sun, declined to comment. IBM spokesman
Ed Barbini didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
IBM Chief Executive Officer
Sam Palmisano said last month he planned “to go on offense” during the recession and make acquisitions.
IBM had a 33 percent share of global server sales at the end of the fourth quarter, according to researcher Gartner Inc. Buying Sun would boost IBM’s share to 43 percent, compared with
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s 30 percent.
The acquisition also would help IBM boost sales of software, its most profitable business. Sun’s
Solaris operating system runs computers and data centers.
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khoffmann4@bloomberg.net;
Connie Guglielmo in San Francisco at
cguglielmo1@bloomberg.net