Sun is trying to restart talks with IBM, but is being met with a cold shoulder. [/caption] The on-again, off-again soap opera romance between Sun Microsystems and IBM is back on -- but apparently one-sided, because IBM is reportedly not interested. Negotiations for IBM (NYSE: IBM) to purchase Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) for $7 billion seemed all but settled last week until they collapsed at the 11th hour. Since then, both companies have gone…
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Has Sun been holding Java back? In the beginning (1995), Java was created by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun saw that Java was bigger than just Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) and opened up the process of building Java with the Java Community Process (JCP) in 1998. Yet now with rumors of IBM acquiring Sun swirling, the Java community could undergo its most significant change in a decade. There have been questions about Sun's…
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Tech stocks continue to be the stock market's one bright spot. Stocks rebounded sharply Wednesday on better than expected results from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and news that CEOs at some of the nation's biggest banks were buying shares in their battered companies. IBM shares rocketed 11.5% on the company's strong earnings report, and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) kept the party going after hours when it soared 9% on a much better than expected…
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