On Friday, IBM 
and Sun Microsystems were rumored close to an acquisition deal. By Sunday, talks between the technology rivals appeared stalled.IBM reportedly offered about $7 billion, or $9.40 a share, to acquire Sun and all its intellectual property. But according to The Wall Street Journal, merger negotiations between Big Blue and Sun have significantly deteriorated.
Sun’s board rejected IBM’s formal acquisition offer Saturday and sent a notice terminating Sun’s agreement to negotiate exclusively with IBM, according to the Journal. IBM countered by withdrawing its offer to buy Sun. Some news reports suggest company advisers are still keeping lines of communication open.
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April 7th, 2009
n the growing netbook market, where it once lagged well behind its open-source competition, Microsoft is now proclaiming operating-system dominance.According to the NPD Group, the growth of Windows on netbook PCs has skyrocketed over the past year. Microsoft has grown Windows’ netbook market share from less than 10 percent in the first half of 2008 to a whopping 96 percent as of February 2009.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market,” said Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft’s Windows blogger. “Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined mainly by their tiny size and low cost. An interesting concept perhaps, but sales didn’t really take off until the category evolved into the more capable small notebook PCs we see on the market today.”
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April 7th, 2009
