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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (5528)	11/13/1997 4:09:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

* Warning * I am REAL ignorant of anything like this (but that never stopped me from asking/stating things before :->) *************** If I remember right about 10 years ago when sun was a REAL SMALL company they were afraid of a hostile take over and I think I remember someone saying "They took a posion-pill to prevent it". This may be a total misunderstanding, but does anyone know what it means to "take a posion-pill" in regards to a hostile takeover?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (5528)	11/25/1997 6:39:00 PM
From: Chung Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

>>> <<The only company big enough to take over SUNW is IBM.>> How about, dare I say it, MSFT? It would be one big fight, but MSFT might have enough money. Don't they have a lot of cash stashed away? <<< It would be a big fight. But taking over SUN serves Microsoft no value. The only reason that M$ would want to take over SUN is to liquidate it. M$ is not into hardware, but if they start selling Sparc based servers it will only anger their ally - Intel. A much better take over target would be SGI; they are weaker financially at this point. I am not sure if Microsoft has enough cash, but they do have a much larger market captialization than SUN. Which means that they can do a stock swap merger. But again, IMHO the only other plausible candidate to take over Sun is IBM. - Chung