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.
周一，在硅谷尚未破晓之时，软件制造商甲骨文(Oracle)便出其不意地宣布将收购太阳计算机系统公司(Sun Microsystems)。每股9.5美元的现金收购价格与其竞争对手IBM原本有望支付的价格相同。Sun与IBM谈判在两周前破裂。而甲骨文将就此成为IBM和惠普(HP)的直接竞争对手。
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