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From: ins_adhw@jhunix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: An Honest-to-Goodness Rumor!
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 13:21:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 13:21:19 1987
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In article <1345@phred.UUCP> artm@phred.UUCP (Art "Faster! Faster!" Marriott) writes:
>I was recently informed that cash-rich Apple Computer
>is seeking to buy out Sun (even as the latter is trying
>to buy up most of the city of Milpitas).
>                                                 Art Marriott

I've been hearing these rumors for the past 3 or so years. It seems that
Apple keeps getting more cash, offering to buy Sun, being refused, and
trying again.  The most interesting part of the rumor (I think this may
have been from the Wall Street Journal) is that Apple is not interested
in Sun's products, but in their people.  Apple 4 years ago had to lay off
quite a few engineers and such, in order to get back into reasonable
financial condition, and now they need many more people with extensive 
experience in 68020-based UNIX graphic workstations (i.e. Mac II).  Sun
fits that bill pretty well.
--
---------Daniel Wachsstock
Dept. of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
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